Corrada-del Río was the resident commissioner from Puerto Rico and was a New Progressive. He served from 1977 to 1984.
Because Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, and not a state, its representative in the House of Representatives is a delegate, called the resident commissioner, with limited voting privileges — Corrada-del Río can currently vote in committee and in certain votes on the House floor, but not if their vote would be decisive. Delegates have a marginalized role in Congress and their constituents are not represented in Congress in the same manner as most citizens.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Corrada-del Río 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 Corrada-del Río sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 15, 1979 to Oct 11, 1984. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Corrada-del Río was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 5323 (98th): A bill to designate the United States Courthouse Building in Hato Rey Puerto Rico, as the “Clemente Ruiz Nazario Courthouse”.
- H.R. 89 (98th): A bill to permit the transportation of passengers between Puerto Rico and other United States ports on foreign-flag vessels when United States flag service for such transportation ...
- H.R. 1932 (98th): A bill for the relief of Mireille Laffite.
- H.R. 4252 (98th): An act to suspend the noncash benefit requirement for the Puerto Rico nutrition assistance program, to provide States with greater flexibility in the administration of the food ...
- H.R. 4270 (95th): A bill to designate the Federal building and U.S. courthouse in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, the “Federico Degetau Federal Building”.
Does 5 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
Corrada-del Río sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Social Welfare (20%) Transportation and Public Works (18%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%) Private Legislation (11%) Agriculture and Food (7%) Education (7%) Law (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Corrada-del Río’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6006 (98th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide ...
- H.R. 5323 (98th): A bill to designate the United States Courthouse Building in Hato Rey ...
- H.R. 5251 (98th): Hispanic Education Incentives Act of 1984
- H.R. 4252 (98th): An act to suspend the noncash benefit requirement for the Puerto Rico ...
- H.R. 3758 (98th): A bill to provide land-grant status for the College of Agriculture and ...
- H.R. 1932 (98th): A bill for the relief of Mireille Laffite.
- H.R. 1017 (98th): Puerto Rico Transportation Equalization Act of 1981
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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
