Rep. James Burke
Former Representative from Massachusetts's 11th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Massachusetts's 11th District | |
| Representative | Massachusetts's 13th District | |
| Representative | Massachusetts's 13th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Burke was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Burke’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Burke 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 Burke’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 14084 (95th): Disability Insurance Amendments
- H.J.Res. 1002 (95th): A resolution designating John Adams as the “Father of the United States ...
- H.R. 13008 (95th): A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue ...
- H.J.Res. 961 (95th): A resolution to amend the Coinage Act of 1965 to change the ...
- H.R. 12862 (95th): A bill to make Federal Employees Group Life Insurance available to otherwise ...
- H.R. 12311 (95th): A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue ...
- H.R. 11878 (95th): A bill to amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1959 to Oct 1978, Burke missed 187 of 6,354 roll call votes, which is 2.9%. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills