Rep. Lane Evans
Former Representative from Illinois's 17th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Illinois's 17th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Evans was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Evans’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Evans to other members of the House of Representatives in the 109th 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 Evans’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5204 (109th): Federal Locks and Lock and Dam Facilities Act of 2006
- H.Res. 759 (109th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of ...
- H.R. 4914 (109th): Veterans’ Choice of Representation Act
- H.R. 3727 (109th): To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide emergency assistance to ...
- H.R. 3670 (109th): To extend for persons affected by Hurricane Katrina the time for appeal ...
- H.R. 3666 (109th): To provide that, for the period ending August 31, 2007, veterans affected ...
- H.Con.Res. 235 (109th): Expressing the sense of the Congress that States should require candidates for ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1983 to Dec 2006, Evans missed 677 of 12,862 roll call votes, which is 5.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. 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