Rep. Robert “Marion” Berry

Former Representative from Arkansas's 1^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1997-2010	Representative	Arkansas's 1^st District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Berry was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Berry’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Berry to other members of the House of Representatives in the 111^th 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 Berry’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1997 to Dec 2010, Berry missed 290 of 9,363 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. This is worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2010. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1997 Jan-Mar	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	5	2.2%	55^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	1	0.6%	13^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	7	7.9%	81^st
1998 Apr-Jun	185	1	0.5%	20^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	7	3.5%	68^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	2	1.1%	31^st
1999 Jul-Sep	204	11	5.4%	85^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	3	2.1%	42^nd
2000 Jan-Mar	95	3	3.2%	41^st
2000 Apr-Jun	277	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	1	1.3%	32^nd
2002 Apr-Jun	203	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	1	0.4%	15^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	6	3.1%	66^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	12	11.5%	84^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	1	0.5%	16^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	10	6.2%	73^rd
2004 Oct-Dec	58	1	1.7%	43^rd
2005 Jan-Mar	90	1	1.1%	19^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	1	0.4%	14^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	3	11.1%	79^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	17	5.4%	83^rd
2007 Oct-Dec	263	4	1.5%	30^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	19	12.8%	87^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	14	4.4%	63^rd
2008 Jul-Sep	205	4	2.0%	42^nd
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	4	2.3%	50^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	18	5.9%	82^nd
2009 Jul-Sep	268	4	1.5%	40^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	6	2.4%	45^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	8	4.1%	59^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	22	10.0%	87^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	24	15.9%	94^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	69	69.7%	98^th

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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Bill Text

H.R. 3634 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, Arkansas, as the “George Kell Post Office”.

This bill’s text for status Passed Congress/Enrolled Bill (Jan 01, 2010) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 8:19 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 3634 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, Arkansas, as the “George Kell Post Office”.

This bill’s text for status Reported by Senate Committee (May 18, 2010) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 7:46 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 3634 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, Arkansas, as the “George Kell Post Office”.

This bill’s text for status Referred to Senate Committee (Dec 03, 2009) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 6:58 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 3634 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, Arkansas, as the “George Kell Post Office”.

This bill’s text for status Passed the House (Engrossed) (Dec 02, 2009) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 6:53 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 3634 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 109 Main Street in Swifton, Arkansas, as the “George Kell Post Office”.

This bill’s text is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 6:21 p.m.