Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Evans sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Evans is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Evans sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (22%) Government Operations and Politics (19%) Housing and Community Development (15%) Health (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (11%) Social Welfare (7%) Agriculture and Food (7%) Economics and Public Finance (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Evans’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5946 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude ...
- H.R. 4218 (97th): A bill to amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards ...
- H.R. 3888 (97th): A bill to amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards ...
- H.R. 3646 (97th): Credit Union Modernization Act of 1981
- H.R. 2883 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to clarify ...
- H.Con.Res. 82 (97th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal ...
- H.R. 8287 (96th): A bill to provide that interest on certain obligations issued by certain ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1975 to Dec 1982, Evans missed 367 of 4,901 roll call votes, which is 7.5%. This is on par with the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills