Rep. Joseph Wyatt Jr.

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Wyatt to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

• H.R. 8386 (96th): A bill for the relief of Roy P. Benavidez.
• H.R. 7495 (96th): A bill to establish Inauguration Day as a legal public holiday.
• H.R. 7494 (96th): A bill to provide for an investigation of the acquisition of lands ...
• H.R. 7496 (96th): A bill to provide additional funds for certain projects relating to fish ...
• H.R. 5998 (96th): A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to display and ...
• H.R. 5577 (96th): Ixtoc I Oil Pollution Compensation Act of 1979
• H.R. 5356 (96th): A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide ...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1979 to Dec 1980, Wyatt missed 113 of 1,273 roll call votes, which is 8.9%. 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.

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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