Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Case sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the Senate in 1978. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Case is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Enacted Legislation
Case was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:
- S. 2679 (94th): A bill to establish a Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
- S. 804 (94th): A bill for the relief of Zoraida E. Lastimosa.
- S. 2692 (93rd): Emergency Security Assistance Act
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Case sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (21%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Private Legislation (17%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (10%) Environmental Protection (10%) Taxation (10%) Water Resources Development (10%) Agriculture and Food (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Case’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 3488 (95th): A bill for the relief of Yaroslav L. Tiajoloff.
- S. 3307 (95th): Thomas A. Edison Centennial Educational Act
- S. 3143 (95th): A bill to increase alternatives to institutionalization for senior citizens.
- S. 3131 (95th): Medicare Mental Illness Non-Discrimination Act
- S. 2927 (95th): A bill for the relief of Edna Kalenik.
- S.Con.Res. 72 (95th): A concurrent resolution countering terrorism.
- S.Con.Res. 70 (95th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress on the agreement ...
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1955 to Oct 1978, Case missed 540 of 8,227 roll call votes, which is 6.6%. This is better than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills