Dewey Bartlett, former Senator for Oklahoma

Bartlett was a senator from Oklahoma and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1978.

Photo of Sen. Dewey Bartlett [R-OK, 1973-1978]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Bartlett is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate 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 Bartlett sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Bartlett was the primary sponsor of 17 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 17 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Bartlett sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Native Americans (22%) Taxation (18%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Law (10%) Energy (9%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (9%) Education (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Bartlett recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1973 to Oct 1978, Bartlett missed 334 of 3,605 roll call votes, which is 9.3%. This is on par with the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	67	2	3.0%	20^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	9	4.7%	14^th
1973 Jul-Sep	167	4	2.4%	18^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	5	3.0%	15^th
1974 Jan-Mar	94	7	7.4%	40^th
1974 Apr-Jun	179	8	4.5%	26^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	1	0.7%	7^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	5	3.8%	15^th
1975 Jan-Mar	118	17	14.4%	79^th
1975 Apr-Jun	141	4	2.8%	12^th
1975 Jul-Sep	170	35	20.6%	89^th
1975 Oct-Dec	182	3	1.6%	7^th
1976 Jan-Mar	109	11	10.1%	60^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	9	3.4%	12^th
1976 Jul-Sep	315	10	3.2%	11^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	44	47.8%	99^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	75	42.1%	97^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	23	9.9%	68^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	18	13.5%	63^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	78	8	10.3%	50^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	18	15.1%	75^th
1978 Jul-Sep	237	17	7.2%	33^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	86	1	1.2%	10^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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