Rep. Joseph Skeen
Former Representative from New Mexico's 2nd District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | New Mexico's 2nd District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Skeen was a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Skeen’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Skeen to other members of the House of Representatives in the 107th 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 Skeen’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5093 (107th): Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003
- H.R. 2217 (107th): Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
- H.R. 1913 (107th): To require the valuation of nontribal interest ownership of subsurface rights within ...
- H.R. 706 (107th): Lease Lot Conveyance Act of 2002
- H.R. 5426 (106th): Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, ...
- H.R. 5359 (106th): Lease Lot Conveyance Act of 2000
- H.R. 4725 (106th): To amend the Zuni Land Conservation Act of 1990 to provide for ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1981 to Nov 2002, Skeen missed 156 of 11,237 roll call votes, which is 1.4%. This is better than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills