Rep. James Bilbray
Former Representative from Nevada's 1st District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Nevada's 1st District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Bilbray was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Bilbray’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Bilbray to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103rd 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 Bilbray’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Con.Res. 247 (103rd): Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the Nagorno Karabagh ...
- H.R. 3586 (103rd): Defense Acquisition Reform Act of 1993
- H.R. 3320 (103rd): Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993
- H.R. 3050 (103rd): To expand the boundaries of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
- H.R. 2206 (103rd): To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer public lands for ...
- H.R. 2012 (103rd): To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of ...
- H.R. 1271 (103rd): For the relief of Peter J. Montagnoli.
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Voting Record
From Jan 1987 to Nov 1994, Bilbray missed 79 of 3,894 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is better than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. 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
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills