James Collins, former Representative from Texas's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1967-1982	Representative	Texas's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Collins was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Collins’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Collins to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^th 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

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Voting Record

From Sep 1968 to Dec 1982, Collins missed 361 of 7,084 roll call votes, which is 5.1%. This is better than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1968 Jul-Sep	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Oct-Oct	24	1	4.2%	45^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	1	3.6%	24^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	1	2.2%	17^th
1969 Oct-Dec	86	15	17.4%	79^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	23^rd
1970 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	7^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	3	3.9%	21^st
1970 Oct-Dec	81	22	27.2%	81^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	57^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	5	5.6%	19^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	4	5.6%	40^th
1971 Oct-Dec	132	9	6.8%	38^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	12	10.7%	49^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	9^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	9	18.0%	65^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	7	3.7%	21^st
1973 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	59^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	11	6.1%	53^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	12^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	8	4.7%	26^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	22	15.8%	78^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	31^st
1975 Apr-Jun	198	7	3.5%	37^th
1975 Jul-Sep	145	2	1.4%	18^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	3	1.6%	20^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	9	8.6%	66^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	6	2.2%	10^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	14^th
1977 Apr-Jun	269	5	1.9%	20^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	1	0.5%	8^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	5	3.7%	36^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	1	0.7%	6^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	5	1.7%	10^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	12	3.9%	28^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	1	1.3%	13^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	8	4.0%	36^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	3	1.6%	9^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	8	5.4%	31^st
1980 Apr-Jun	196	4	2.0%	12^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	7	3.6%	29^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	4	6.0%	34^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	1	1.1%	7^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	1	0.9%	15^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	5	3.5%	31^st
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	115	17	14.8%	85^th
1982 Jul-Sep	190	86	45.3%	97^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	13	13.1%	64^th

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Collins [R-TX3, 1967-1982] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 3rd congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Collins [R-TX3, 1967-1982] takes office as Representative for Texas's 3rd congressional district

Jan 10, 1967

Rep. James Collins

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices