David Treen, former Representative for Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District

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Treen was the representative for Louisiana’s 3^rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1980.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Treen is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1980 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 Treen sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 14, 1975 to Dec 13, 1980. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Treen sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Social Welfare (20%) Families (15%) Education (13%) Law (13%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Taxation (10%) Environmental Protection (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Treen’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1973 to Mar 1980, Treen missed 827 of 4,674 roll call votes, which is 17.7%. This is much worse than the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	25^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	13	6.8%	39^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	3	2.3%	27^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	2	1.1%	12^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	12	15.2%	79^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	10	5.9%	32^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	32	21.6%	93^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	9	6.4%	32^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	9	13.2%	79^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	22	11.1%	73^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	21	11.0%	76^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	1	0.9%	14^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	22	8.2%	46^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	24	8.5%	61^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	3	1.1%	8^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	14	7.1%	59^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	10	7.4%	54^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	15	10.0%	64^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	39	13.0%	70^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	16	5.2%	35^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	4	5.3%	47^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	18	28.6%	90^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	98	44.3%	98^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	146	73.7%	99^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	179	94.2%	100^th
1980 Jan-Mar	111	104	93.7%	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

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