Rep. Donald Bailey
Former Representative from Pennsylvania's 21st District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Pennsylvania's 21st District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Bailey was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Bailey’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Bailey to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97th Congress on leadership and ideology.
This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.
Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship
Some of Bailey’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Con.Res. 437 (97th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress concerning the completion of ...
- H.J.Res. 636 (97th): A joint resolution directing the completion of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in ...
- H.R. 7449 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow ...
- H.R. 7107 (97th): A bill to amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to ...
- H.Res. 585 (97th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect ...
- H.R. 7075 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide ...
- H.R. 7074 (97th): A bill to amend section 151 of the Internal Revenue Code of ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1979 to Dec 1982, Bailey missed 31 of 2,085 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is better than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills