Slaughter was the representative for Virginia’s 7th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1985 to 1991.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Slaughter is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Slaughter sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Slaughter was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 829 (102nd): To amend title 28, United States Code, to make changes in the composition of the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia.
- H.R. 2652 (102nd): Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Act
- H.R. 4721 (101st): To designate the Federal building located at 340 North Pleasant Valley Road in Winchester, Virginia, as the “J. Kenneth Robinson Postal Building”.
- H.R. 3791 (101st): For the relief of Beulah C. Shifflett.
- H.R. 875 (101st): Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park Expansion Act of 1989
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
Slaughter sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (31%) Taxation (19%) Social Welfare (14%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (7%) Private Legislation (7%) Economics and Public Finance (5%) Environmental Protection (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Slaughter recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 2652 (102nd): Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Act
- H.R. 1528 (102nd): Medicare Trust Fund Integrity Act of 1991
- H.R. 829 (102nd): To amend title 28, United States Code, to make changes in the …
- H.R. 704 (102nd): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross …
- H.R. 703 (102nd): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross …
- H.R. 705 (102nd): Federal Employees Long-Term Care Insurance Act
- H.R. 702 (102nd): Health Care Savings Account Act of 1991
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1985 to Nov 1991, Slaughter missed 138 of 3,108 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is on par with the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1991. 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
- 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
