Rep. Larry Combest
Former Representative from Texas's 19th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Texas's 19th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Combest was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Combest’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Combest to other members of the House of Representatives in the 108th 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 Combest’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5376 (107th): Reduce Wildfire Risk bill
- H.R. 2646 (107th): Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
- H.R. 2213 (107th): Crop Year 2001 Agricultural Economic Assistance Act
- H.Res. 46 (107th): Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Agriculture in the ...
- H.R. 4502 (106th): Water Pollution Program Improvement Act of 2000
- H.R. 2991 (106th): To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide for periodic revision ...
- H.R. 2559 (106th): Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000
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Voting Record
From Jan 1985 to May 2003, Combest missed 319 of 9,731 roll call votes, which is 3.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 2003. 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