James Weaver, former Representative from Oregon's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1986	Representative	Oregon's 4^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Weaver was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Weaver’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Weaver to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^th 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 1975 to Oct 1986, Weaver missed 782 of 6,667 roll call votes, which is 11.7%. This is worse than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	18^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	8	4.0%	40^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	4	2.7%	26^th
1975 Oct-Dec	188	6	3.2%	40^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	7	6.6%	59^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	54	20.2%	88^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	35	12.5%	78^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	5	5.0%	51^st
1977 Apr-Jun	270	47	17.4%	91^st
1977 Jul-Sep	198	15	7.6%	64^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	10	7.7%	67^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	25	16.8%	89^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	35	11.7%	72^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	18	5.8%	43^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	75	22	29.3%	92^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	71^st
1979 Apr-Jun	220	17	7.7%	59^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	26	13.1%	84^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	7	3.7%	21^st
1980 Jan-Mar	148	17	11.5%	68^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	14	7.1%	48^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	19	9.9%	64^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	11	16.4%	72^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	73^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	89	13	14.6%	82^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	14	13.2%	86^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	36^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	7	14.6%	72^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	19	16.0%	90^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	17	8.8%	66^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	8	8.1%	50^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	13	30.2%	98^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	18	9.9%	68^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	19	14.6%	94^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	4	2.8%	26^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	10	18.9%	88^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	20	9.0%	68^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	5	5.3%	51^st
1984 Oct-Oct	36	12	33.3%	93^rd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	35^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	50	32.5%	100^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	76^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	25	16.9%	95^th
1986 Jan-Mar	59	16	27.1%	94^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	31	24.2%	94^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	40	19.9%	94^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	14	23.3%	91^st

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Weaver [D-OR4, 1975-1986] leaves office as Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Weaver [D-OR4, 1975-1986] takes office as Representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district

Jan 14, 1975

Rep. James Weaver

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices