Sen. Donald Stewart

Sponsorship Analysis

Stewart was a moderate Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Stewart’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Stewart to other members of the Senate in the 96^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Stewart’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• S. 2974 (96th): A bill to amend section 5137 of the Revised Statutes.
• S. 2954 (96th): A bill to amend title V of the Rural Development Act of ...
• S. 2713 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect ...
• S. 2716 (96th): An original bill to authorize appropriations for flood mapping studies for fiscal ...
• S. 2677 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide ...
• S. 2670 (96th): A bill to authorize appropriations for the studies under the National Flood ...
• S.Res. 414 (96th): A resolution to commend the National Forensic League on its Golden Anniversary ...

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Voting Record

From Feb 1979 to Dec 1980, Stewart missed 162 of 1,051 roll call votes, which is 15.4%. This is worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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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
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills