Rep. Bill Archer

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Archer is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2000 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 Archer sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1995 to Dec 15, 2000. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Archer was the primary sponsor of 14 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 4986 (106th): FSC Repeal and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act of 2000
• H.R. 4444 (106th): China Trade bill
• H.R. 435 (106th): Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 1999
• H.R. 1376 (106th): To extend the tax benefits available with respect to services performed in a combat zone to services performed in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) and certain …
• H.R. 2676 (105th): Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998
• H.R. 1226 (105th): Taxpayer Browsing Protection Act
• H.R. 668 (105th): Airport and Airway Trust Fund Tax Reinstatement Act of 1997

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Does 14 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Archer sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (14%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Commerce (13%) Law (12%) Labor and Employment (12%) Finance and Financial Sector (11%) Social Welfare (11%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Archer recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 5662 (106th): Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000
• H.R. 5588 (106th): To establish the Government Program Evaluation Commission.
• H.R. 4986 (106th): FSC Repeal and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act of 2000
• H.Res. 568 (106th): Raising a question of the privilege of the House pursuant to Article …
• H.R. 4865 (106th): Social Security Benefits Tax Relief Act of 2000
• H.R. 4843 (106th): Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act of 2000
• H.R. 4810 (106th): Marriage Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2000

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1971 to Dec 2000, Archer missed 632 of 16,062 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is on par with the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2000. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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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
• 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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills