Rep. William “Jack” Edwards
Former Representative from Alabama's 1st District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Alabama's 1st District |
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Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship
Some of Edwards’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6108 (98th): A bill for the relief of Michael J. Adams.
- H.R. 4922 (98th): A bill to exclude the Fort Morgan Road from the Coastal Barrier ...
- H.R. 4921 (98th): A bill to provide for the selection of additional lands for inclusion ...
- H.R. 4695 (98th): A bill to amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to ...
- H.R. 3673 (98th): A bill for the relief of Meenakshiben P. Patel.
- H.Con.Res. 113 (98th): A concurrent resolution approving the obligation and expenditure of funds for MX ...
- H.R. 1274 (98th): A bill to confer jurisdiction upon the United States Court of Claims ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1965 to Oct 1984, Edwards missed 787 of 8,766 roll call votes, which is 9.0%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills