Alfred McCandless, former Representative for California's 44th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills McCandless sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1994. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). McCandless is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Enacted Legislation

McCandless was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

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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 about one third or more of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

McCandless sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Crime and Law Enforcement (23%) Social Welfare (17%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Taxation (13%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (10%) Health (10%) Native Americans (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1983 to Nov 1994, McCandless missed 272 of 5,693 roll call votes, which is 4.8%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	15	8.2%	59^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	2	1.5%	25^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	3	2.1%	22^nd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	26^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	3	1.3%	9^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	2	2.1%	35^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	30^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	66^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	1	0.6%	10^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	58^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	14	9.5%	86^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	30^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	10	7.8%	80^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	13	6.4%	73^rd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	38^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	35	18.7%	95^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	10	10.5%	84^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	8	4.8%	37^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	58^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	1	0.6%	13^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	38	25.0%	96^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	4	4.5%	61^st
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	8	7.6%	83^rd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	13	10.2%	94^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	7	5.8%	68^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	31^st
1990 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	18^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	50^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	1	0.7%	20^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	48^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	12^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	1	0.6%	17^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	4	6.1%	65^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	3	1.5%	34^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	1	0.8%	23^rd
1993 Apr-Jun	190	2	1.1%	21^st
1993 Jul-Sep	164	10	6.1%	83^rd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	43^rd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	2	2.1%	37^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	18	8.2%	84^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	8	5.6%	68^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	2	3.9%	63^rd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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Analysis

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Missed Votes

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Rep. Alfred McCandless

Analysis

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources

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