Rep. William “Bill” Jenkins
Former Representative from Tennessee's 1st District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Tennessee's 1st District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Jenkins was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Jenkins’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Jenkins to other members of the House of Representatives in the 109th 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 Jenkins’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5120 (109th): To amend title 35, United States Code, to conform certain filing provisions ...
- H.J.Res. 74 (109th): Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
- H.R. 2094 (109th): To suspend temporarily the duty on thionyl chloride.
- H.R. 2093 (109th): To suspend temporarily the duty on 2-Methylhydroquinone.
- H.R. 2095 (109th): To suspend temporarily the duty on 1-fluoro-2-nitro benzene.
- H.R. 1783 (109th): To suspend temporarily the duty on Anisidine.
- H.R. 1784 (109th): To suspend temporarily the duty on Tetrakis.
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Voting Record
From Jan 1997 to Dec 2006, Jenkins missed 291 of 5,832 roll call votes, which is 5.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills