Rep. Pierre du Pont

Sponsorship Analysis

du Pont was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from du Pont’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare du Pont to other members of the House of Representatives in the 94^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of du Pont’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 14355 (94th): A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit ...
• H.R. 14187 (94th): Food Stamp Act
• H.R. 13429 (94th): A bill to clarify the jurisdiction of certain Federal courts with respect ...
• H.R. 13428 (94th): National School-Age Mother and Child Health Act
• H.R. 12922 (94th): A bill to suspend until the close of June 30, 1977, the ...
• H.R. 12283 (94th): A bill to terminate the authorization of the Tocks Island Reservoir project, ...
• H.R. 12030 (94th): A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to ...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1971 to Oct 1976, du Pont missed 271 of 2,966 roll call votes, which is 9.1%. This is worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1976. 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