Rep. John Williams
Former Representative from Montana's 1st District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Montana's 1st District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Williams was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Williams’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Williams to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104th 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 Williams’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4167 (104th): Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996
- H.R. 4188 (104th): Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System Act of 1995
- H.R. 4114 (104th): Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996
- H.R. 4076 (104th): Congress 2000 Commission Act
- H.R. 3318 (104th): Southwest Montana Heritage and Recreation Area Act of 1996
- H.R. 3317 (104th): Yellowstone River Valley Heritage Area Act of 1996
- H.R. 2819 (104th): Fort Peck Rural County Water Supply System Act of 1995
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Voting Record
From Jan 1979 to Sep 1996, Williams missed 1,089 of 9,112 roll call votes, which is 12.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills