Rep. Elizabeth Patterson
Former Representative from South Carolina's 4th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | South Carolina's 4th District |
See Also: Congress.gov
Sponsorship Analysis
Patterson was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Patterson’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Patterson to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102nd 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 Patterson’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 1888 (102nd): To suspend until January 1, 1995, the duty on Phospholan.
- H.R. 1889 (102nd): Budget Simplification and Reform Act of 1991
- H.J.Res. 224 (102nd): Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to ...
- H.R. 4215 (101st): To suspend temporarily the duty on P-Tolualdehyde (p-Tal).
- H.R. 3464 (101st): Budget Simplification and Reform Act of 1989
- H.R. 3444 (101st): To amend title 38, United States Code, with respect to veterans vocational ...
- H.R. 3082 (101st): Children’s Trust Fund Act of 1989
View All » (including bills from previous years)
Voting Record
From Jan 1987 to Oct 1992, Patterson missed 39 of 2,775 roll call votes, which is 1.4%. This is better than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- 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