Rep. Edward Beard
Former Representative from Rhode Island's 2nd District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Rhode Island's 2nd District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Beard was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Beard’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Beard to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96th 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 Beard’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 8402 (96th): A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize ...
- H.Con.Res. 400 (96th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the ...
- H.R. 7653 (96th): A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp ...
- H.R. 7582 (96th): A bill for the relief of William J. Games.
- H.R. 7446 (96th): A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to ...
- H.R. 6896 (96th): A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 ...
- H.R. 6840 (96th): Asbestos Control Act of 1980
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Voting Record
From Jan 1975 to Dec 1980, Beard missed 342 of 4,044 roll call votes, which is 8.5%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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