Rep. Thomas Ashley
Former Representative from Ohio's 9th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Ohio's 9th District | |
| Representative | Ohio's 9th District | |
| Representative | Ohio's 9th District | |
| Representative | Ohio's 9th District |
See Also: Congress.gov
Sponsorship Analysis
Ashley was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Ashley’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Ashley to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96th 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 Ashley’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 8095 (96th): Great Lakes Maritime Act of 1980
- H.R. 7798 (96th): A bill to amend the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 ...
- H.R. 7799 (96th): Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1980
- H.R. 7262 (96th): Housing and Community Development Act of 1980
- H.R. 7100 (96th): Comprehensive Housing Development Act of 1980
- H.R. 7067 (96th): A bill to amend title V of the Housing Act of 1949.
- H.R. 6908 (96th): A bill to amend the provisions of law enacted by part A ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1955 to Dec 1980, Ashley missed 965 of 7,984 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills