Rep. James Harvey
Former Representative from Michigan's 8th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Michigan's 8th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Harvey was a centrist Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Harvey’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Harvey to other members of the House of Representatives in the 93rd 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 Harvey’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 11606 (93rd): A bill for the relief of Ida Kunstmann, Waldemar F. Kunstmann, and ...
- H.R. 10672 (93rd): Food Supplement Amendment
- H.R. 10364 (93rd): A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide hospital ...
- H.R. 10161 (93rd): A bill to accelerate the effective date of the recently enacted cost-of-living ...
- H.R. 10091 (93rd): Travel Agents Registration Act
- H.R. 9579 (93rd): American Folklife Preservation Act
- H.R. 9383 (93rd): Northeast Railroad Restructuring Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1961 to Dec 1974, Harvey missed 366 of 2,940 roll call votes, which is 12.4%. This is worse than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. 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