Rep. James Jontz
Former Representative from Indiana's 5th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Indiana's 5th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Jontz was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Jontz’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Jontz to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102nd 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 Jontz’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Res. 556 (102nd): Exercising the right of the House of Representatives to change the rules ...
- H.R. 5818 (102nd): Small Lakes Restoration Act of 1992
- H.R. 5593 (102nd): Military Retirees Benefits Protection Act
- H.R. 5262 (102nd): To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 relating to diversion ...
- H.R. 5178 (102nd): Octane Replacement Act of 1992
- H.R. 5042 (102nd): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny any deduction ...
- H.R. 4924 (102nd): Resolution Trust Corporation Reform Act of 1992
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Voting Record
From Jan 1987 to Oct 1992, Jontz missed 8 of 2,773 roll call votes, which is 0.3%. This is better than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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