Cornwell was the representative for Indiana’s 8th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1977 to 1978.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Cornwell is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978 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 Cornwell sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Cornwell was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 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
Cornwell sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (21%) Social Welfare (21%) International Affairs (21%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Economics and Public Finance (9%) Emergency Management (6%) Private Legislation (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Cornwell recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 1391 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that no …
- H.Res. 1197 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect …
- H.Res. 1147 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect …
- H.Res. 1129 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect …
- H.Res. 1109 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect …
- H.R. 11806 (95th): Tertiary Recovery Incentives Act
- H.Res. 1101 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1977 to Oct 1978, Cornwell missed 212 of 1,540 roll call votes, which is 13.8%. This is worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
