Rep. Tom Bliley
Former Representative from Virginia's 7th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Virginia's 7th District | |
| Representative | Virginia's 3rd District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Bliley was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Bliley’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Bliley to other members of the House of Representatives in the 106th 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 Bliley’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5476 (106th): Internet Prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act of 2000
- H.R. 5291 (106th): Beneficiary Improvement and Protection Act of 2000
- H.R. 5225 (106th): Richmond National Battlefield Park Act of 2000
- H.Con.Res. 396 (106th): Celebrating the birth of James Madison and his contributions to the Nation.
- H.Res. 573 (106th): Expressing the condolences of the House of Representatives on the death of ...
- H.R. 5122 (106th): Patient Protection Act of 2000
- H.R. 3907 (106th): External Regulation of the Department of Energy Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1981 to Dec 2000, Bliley missed 258 of 10,232 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is better than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2000. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills