Rep. James Jeffries
Former Representative from Kansas's 2nd District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Kansas's 2nd District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Jeffries was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Jeffries’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Jeffries to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97th 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 Jeffries’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 7299 (97th): Tax Funded Advocacy Act of 1982
- H.Con.Res. 334 (97th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that no amnesty ...
- H.J.Res. 412 (97th): A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate May ...
- H.R. 5550 (97th): A bill to deauthorize the Onaga Lake project, Vermillion Creek, Kansas.
- H.R. 5416 (97th): A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army to add water ...
- H.R. 5256 (97th): A bill to amend the General Education Provisions Act to reduce the ...
- H.R. 5255 (97th): A bill to amend the General Education Provisions Act to reduce the ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1979 to Dec 1982, Jeffries missed 90 of 2,074 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. 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.
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