Kazen was the representative for Texas’s 23rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1967 to 1984.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Kazen is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1984 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Kazen sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 15, 1979 to Oct 11, 1984. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Kazen was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:
- H.J.Res. 580 (98th): A joint resolution authorizing the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia.
- H.R. 1652 (98th): Reclamation Safety of Dams Act Amendments of 1984
- H.R. 4496 (97th): Texas Band of Kickapoo Act
- H.R. 2035 (97th): An act to authorize certain employees of the United States Department of Agriculture charged with the enforcement of animal quarantine laws to carry firearms for self-protection and …
- H.R. 783 (97th): A bill for the relief of Roland Karl Heinz Vogel.
- H.R. 1422 (95th): A bill for the relief of Julio Ortiz-Medina.
Does 6 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Kazen sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (23%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Immigration (16%) Private Legislation (16%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Commerce (6%) Water Resources Development (6%) Environmental Protection (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Kazen’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.J.Res. 580 (98th): A joint resolution authorizing the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation to establish a …
- H.R. 5544 (98th): United States-Mexican Border Economic Recovery Act
- H.R. 4444 (98th): A bill to amend the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956, as …
- H.R. 4434 (98th): A bill for the relief of Arturo Ruiz-Delgado and Martina Anaya de …
- H.R. 3760 (98th): A bill to require that at least 20 percent of enterprise zones …
- H.R. 1652 (98th): Reclamation Safety of Dams Act Amendments of 1984
- H.R. 1141 (98th): A bill to provide for payments in lieu of taxes to be …
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1967 to Oct 1984, Kazen missed 525 of 8,455 roll call votes, which is 6.2%. This is on par with the median of 7.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
