Rep. William Boner
Former Representative from Tennessee's 5th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Tennessee's 5th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Boner was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Boner’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Boner to other members of the House of Representatives in the 100th 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 Boner’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 3136 (100th): A bill to establish certain requirements relating to the identification, treatment, and ...
- H.R. 2538 (100th): A bill to award a congressional gold medal to Roy Acuff.
- H.R. 2493 (100th): A bill to amend the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 ...
- H.R. 2396 (100th): A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to ...
- H.R. 1027 (100th): A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to ...
- H.R. 954 (100th): Excellence in Minority Health Education and Care Act
- H.R. 628 (100th): Prevention, Identification, and Treatment of Elder Abuse Act of 1987
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Voting Record
From Jan 1979 to Oct 1987, Boner missed 536 of 4,188 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1987. 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