Rep. John McKernan Jr.

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare McKernan to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of McKernan’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 5630 (99th): A bill amending title 46, United States Code, to permit vessels owned ...
• H.R. 4590 (99th): A bill relating to certain foreign labor subsidies for which relief may ...
• H.R. 3988 (99th): A bill to enhance the enforcement of laws conserving American lobster.
• H.R. 3856 (99th): Recreational Marine Craft Act of 1985
• H.R. 3830 (99th): A bill to provide for a Samantha Smith Memorial Exchange and Scholarship ...
• H.R. 3798 (99th): A bill to authorize the establishment of a Merchant Ship Revolving Fund, ...
• H.R. 3226 (99th): A bill for the relief of Guy R. Allen.

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Voting Record

From Jan 1983 to Oct 1986, McKernan missed 41 of 1,794 roll call votes, which is 2.3%. This is better 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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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