Evans was a senator from Washington and was a Republican. He served from 1983 to 1988.
![Photo of Sen. Daniel Evans [R-WA, 1983-1988]](/static/legislator-photos/403920-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Evans is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1988 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 Evans sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 26, 1983 to Oct 22, 1988. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Evans was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- S. 2165 (100th): Washington Park Wilderness Act of 1988
- S. 2752 (100th): A bill to declare that certain lands be held in trust for the Quinault Indian Nation, and for other purposes.
- S. 649 (100th): A bill to amend the Reclamation Authorization Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 1324, 1327).
- S. 1126 (100th): A bill to designate the border station at 9931 Guide Meridian, Lynden, Washington, as the “Kenneth G. Ward Border Station”.
- S. 2351 (99th): A bill to revise the boundaries of Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.
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
Evans sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Economics and Public Finance (19%) Native Americans (16%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (11%) Energy (11%) Water Resources Development (11%) Environmental Protection (11%) Social Welfare (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Evans recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 2752 (100th): A bill to declare that certain lands be held in trust for …
- S. 2691 (100th): A bill to extend eligibility for the Indian Claims Commission Expert Witness …
- S. 2535 (100th): Scrimshaw Production Licensing Extension Act of 1988
- S. 2522 (100th): A bill to amend part A of title IV of the Social …
- S. 2322 (100th): A bill to authorize certain elements of the Yakima River Basin Water …
- S. 2300 (100th): A bill to issue a fisheries license for the operation of the …
- S. 2165 (100th): Washington Park Wilderness Act of 1988
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jun 1983 to Oct 1988, Evans missed 173 of 1,968 roll call votes, which is 8.8%. This is worse than the median of 5.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1988. 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.
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
- 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
