Rep. Richard “Dick” Shoup

Sponsorship Analysis

Shoup was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Shoup’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Shoup to other members of the House of Representatives in the 93^rd Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

• H.R. 17306 (93rd): Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act
• H.R. 16571 (93rd): A bill to provide for the transfer of certain funds to the ...
• H.R. 16366 (93rd): A bill for the relief of M. Sgt. Gary O. Ostlund, U.S. ...
• H.Res. 1278 (93rd): Resolution to create a Select Committee on Aging.
• H.R. 15874 (93rd): A bill to repeal the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act ...
• H.R. 15556 (93rd): A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to ...
• H.R. 15557 (93rd): A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to ...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1971 to Dec 1974, Shoup missed 214 of 1,704 roll call votes, which is 12.6%. This is worse than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. 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