Rep. James O'Hara

Sponsorship Analysis

O'Hara was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from O'Hara’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare O'Hara to other members of the House of Representatives in the 94^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of O'Hara’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.Res. 1587 (94th): Resolution to disapprove certain regulations submitted to the House by the Commissioner ...
• H.R. 14818 (94th): Public Safety Officers Memorial Scholarship Act
• H.R. 14766 (94th): A bill to establish a select joint committee on the Olympics.
• H.R. 14250 (94th): Estate and Gift Tax Reform Act
• H.R. 14204 (94th): A bill to amend section 101 (1) (2) of the Tax Reform ...
• H.R. 14070 (94th): A bill to extend and amend part B of title IV of ...
• H.R. 13488 (94th): A bill to amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States with ...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1976, O'Hara missed 481 of 4,891 roll call votes, which is 9.8%. This is worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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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