Rep. Richard White
Former Representative from Texas's 16th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Texas's 16th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
White was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from White’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare White to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97th 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 White’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 7354 (97th): A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to ...
- H.R. 7289 (97th): A bill to provide for the awarding of gold medals to the ...
- H.R. 7141 (97th): A bill to repeal the provision of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ...
- H.R. 7142 (97th): A bill to repeal the provision of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ...
- H.R. 6954 (97th): Joint Chiefs of Staff Reorganization Act of 1982
- H.R. 6828 (97th): Joint Chiefs of Staff Reorganization Act of 1982
- H.R. 6488 (97th): A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1965 to Dec 1982, White missed 484 of 7,885 roll call votes, which is 6.1%. This is better than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills