Rep. David “Mac” Sweeney

Former Representative for Texas’s 14^th District

Sweeney was the representative for Texas’s 14^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1985 to 1988.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Sweeney is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives 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 Sweeney sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1983 to Oct 22, 1988. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Sweeney sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (20%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Water Resources Development (13%) Agriculture and Food (13%) Social Welfare (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%) Finance and Financial Sector (13%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Sweeney recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1985 to Oct 1988, Sweeney missed 250 of 1,829 roll call votes, which is 13.7%. This is much worse than the median of 5.5% among the lifetime records of representatives 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	64^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	10	6.5%	65^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	3	3.0%	38^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	10	6.8%	69^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	89^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	8	6.2%	70^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	24	11.9%	89^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	7	11.7%	79^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	57^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	8	4.3%	46^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	13	13.7%	89^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	33	19.8%	93^rd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	10	20.4%	91^st
1988 Apr-Jun	161	11	6.8%	64^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	26	17.1%	88^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	68	76.4%	99^th

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