Rep. James Tucker Jr.
Former Representative from Arkansas's 2nd District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Arkansas's 2nd District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Tucker was a moderate Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Tucker’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Tucker to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95th 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 Tucker’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 14049 (95th): A bill to amend sections 170, 2055, and 2522 of the Internal ...
- H.Con.Res. 615 (95th): A resolution disapproving the proposed “package” of sales of aircraft to Saudi ...
- H.Res. 1157 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the ...
- H.R. 12103 (95th): A bill to include civilian security police of the Department of Defense ...
- H.Res. 1130 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the ...
- H.Res. 1116 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the ...
- H.R. 11914 (95th): A bill to amend section 218 of the Social Security Act to ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1977 to Oct 1978, Tucker missed 499 of 1,526 roll call votes, which is 32.7%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. 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