Rep. Walter Johnston III
Former Representative from North Carolina's 6th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | North Carolina's 6th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Johnston was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Johnston’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Johnston 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 Johnston’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Con.Res. 366 (97th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that legislation should ...
- H.R. 5927 (97th): A bill to provide duty-free treatment with respect to certain industrial safety ...
- H.R. 5257 (97th): A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 relating ...
- H.R. 5258 (97th): A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 ...
- H.R. 5259 (97th): A bill to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of ...
- H.R. 4049 (97th): A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 ...
- H.R. 3408 (97th): A bill to amend title 17 of the United States Code to ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1981 to Dec 1982, Johnston missed 80 of 796 roll call votes, which is 10.1%. This is worse 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
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills