Rep. John Cavanaugh
Former Representative from Nebraska's 2nd District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Nebraska's 2nd District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Cavanaugh was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Cavanaugh’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Cavanaugh to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96th 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 Cavanaugh’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 8337 (96th): A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ...
- H.R. 8279 (96th): A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act and ...
- H.R. 6560 (96th): A bill for the relief of James G. Reese.
- H.R. 6015 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect ...
- H.R. 5653 (96th): A bill to waive certain time limitations on the award of a ...
- H.R. 5579 (96th): A bill to provide that no salary increases shall be given Members ...
- H.R. 5559 (96th): Fair Financial Information Practices Act of 1979
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Voting Record
From Jan 1977 to Dec 1980, Cavanaugh missed 277 of 2,802 roll call votes, which is 9.9%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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