Rep. George Gekas
Former Representative from Pennsylvania's 17th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Pennsylvania's 17th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Gekas was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Gekas’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Gekas to other members of the House of Representatives in the 107th 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 Gekas’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5745 (107th): Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2002
- H.R. 5744 (107th): Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2002
- H.R. 5588 (107th): Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002
- H.R. 5525 (107th): Corporate Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Employee Protection Act of 2002
- H.R. 5223 (107th): Government Shutdown Prevention Act
- H.R. 5013 (107th): SAFER Act
- H.R. 4932 (107th): Administrative Law Process Enhancement Act of 2002
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Voting Record
From Jan 1983 to Nov 2002, Gekas missed 228 of 10,427 roll call votes, which is 2.2%. This is better than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills