Rep. Goodloe Byron
Former Representative from Maryland's 6th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Maryland's 6th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Byron was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Byron’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Byron to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95th 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 Byron’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 14198 (95th): A bill to revise the boundaries of the Hampton National Historic Site ...
- H.R. 14170 (95th): A bill to prohibit fuel adjustment clauses in electric utility rate schedules.
- H.R. 13345 (95th): A bill to prohibit fuel adjustment clauses in electric utility rate schedules.
- H.R. 13062 (95th): A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide increased ...
- H.R. 13002 (95th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide, ...
- H.R. 13004 (95th): A bill for the relief of Charlotte F. Worgan.
- H.R. 12733 (95th): A bill to prohibit fuel adjustment clauses in electric utility rate schedules.
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Voting Record
From Jan 1971 to Oct 1978, Byron missed 212 of 4,445 roll call votes, which is 4.8%. This is better than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. 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