Rep. William Wampler
Former Representative from Virginia's 9th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Virginia's 9th District | |
| Representative | Virginia's 9th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Wampler was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Wampler’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Wampler 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 Wampler’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 7051 (97th): Cooperative State Forestry Research and Extension Amendments of 1982
- H.R. 6678 (97th): A bill to clarify and extend the authority of the Secretary of ...
- H.R. 6679 (97th): An act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to assess civil penalties ...
- H.Res. 478 (97th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect ...
- H.R. 6404 (97th): Emergency Dairy Adjustment Act of 1982
- H.R. 6362 (97th): A bill to recover costs incurred by the Department in the administration ...
- H.R. 6205 (97th): A bill to provide that the lake referred to as the North ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1953 to Dec 1982, Wampler missed 496 of 7,621 roll call votes, which is 6.5%. This is better 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