Rep. William Cobey Jr.

Sponsorship Analysis

Cobey was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Cobey’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Cobey to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Cobey’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.J.Res. 612 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the week beginning February 1, 1987, as ...
• H.Res. 413 (99th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect ...
• H.R. 3893 (99th): Unclaimed Property Act of 1985
• H.R. 3704 (99th): Anti-State-Supported Terrorism Act of 1985
• H.J.Res. 424 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the year of 1986 as the “Year ...
• H.R. 3595 (99th): A bill to provide financial assistance for the Sam J. Ervin, Jr., ...
• H.R. 2505 (99th): A bill for the relief of Kenneth David Franklin.

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Voting Record

From Jan 1985 to Oct 1986, Cobey missed 13 of 889 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is better than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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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