Rep. Christopher Shays
Former Representative from Connecticut's 4th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title / State / District |
|---|---|
| Representative, Connecticut's 4th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Shays was a centrist Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Shays’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Shays’s bills had a total of 202 cosponsors in the 110th Congress.
Use this chart to compare Shays to other members of the House of Representatives in the 110th Congress on leadership and ideology.
This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Some of Shays’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 7235 (110th): To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act the amount of deposits insured ...
- H.Res. 1522 (110th): Honoring the life, achievements, and contributions of Paul Newman.
- H.R. 7127 (110th): Total Learning Curriculum Implementation Act
- H.R. 6784 (110th): Home Heating Oil Assistance Act of 2008
- H.R. 6626 (110th): To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to repay Federal educational loans ...
- H.Res. 1289 (110th): Urging the President to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to work ...
- H.Con.Res. 334 (110th): Supporting the goals and objectives of a National Military Appreciation Month.
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Voting Record
From Sep 1987 to Dec 2008, Shays missed 287 of 12,648 roll call votes, which is 2.3%. This is better than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2008. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills