James Leath, former Representative from Texas's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1979-1990	Representative	Texas's 11^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Leath was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Leath’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Leath to other members of the House of Representatives in the 101^st 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 Jan 1979 to Oct 1990, Leath missed 660 of 5,712 roll call votes, which is 11.6%. This is worse than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1990. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	218	18	8.3%	64^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	5	2.5%	21^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	16	8.4%	47^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	14	9.5%	56^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	19	9.7%	60^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	16	8.3%	58^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	14	20.9%	80^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	4	4.5%	39^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	51^st
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	38^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	25^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	43^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	19	9.8%	73^rd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	4	4.0%	30^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	34^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	21	11.5%	76^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	70^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	19	13.3%	88^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	6	11.3%	74^th
1984 Apr-Jun	218	27	12.4%	83^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	95	14	14.7%	88^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	6	16.7%	81^st
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	21^st
1985 Apr-Jun	154	9	5.8%	61^st
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	58^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	5	3.4%	47^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	7	11.5%	70^th
1986 Apr-Jun	126	8	6.3%	76^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	11	5.5%	65^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	14	23.3%	94^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	5	12.8%	84^th
1987 Apr-Jun	186	12	6.5%	68^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	12	12.6%	89^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	19	11.4%	83^rd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	15	30.6%	98^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	11	6.8%	69^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	39	25.7%	98^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	16	18.0%	92^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	13	12.4%	92^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	24	18.8%	98^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	20	16.5%	94^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	5	8.3%	79^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	55	36.7%	99^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	74	40.4%	99^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	32	22.4%	97^th

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Leath [D-TX11, 1979-1990] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 11th congressional district

Oct 28, 1990

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Leath [D-TX11, 1979-1990] takes office as Representative for Texas's 11th congressional district

Jan 15, 1979

Rep. James Leath

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices