Rep. Don Fuqua

Former Representative for Florida’s 2^nd District

Fuqua was the representative for Florida’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1967 to 1986.

He was previously the representative for Florida’s 9^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1963 to 1966.

Bioguide

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Fuqua is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1986 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 Fuqua sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 5, 1981 to Oct 18, 1986. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Fuqua was the primary sponsor of 24 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 24 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

Fuqua sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (29%) Economics and Public Finance (20%) Science, Technology, Communications (19%) Social Welfare (7%) Energy (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Taxation (6%) Education (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Fuqua recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1963 to Oct 1986, Fuqua missed 1,264 of 9,970 roll call votes, which is 12.7%. This is much worse than the median of 6.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. 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
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	1	3.2%	61^st
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	5	10.0%	84^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	65^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	1	2.9%	53^rd
1964 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	49^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	2	3.8%	19^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	13	13.3%	83^rd
1965 Oct-Oct	22	9	40.9%	94^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	23	76.7%	98^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	17	33.3%	93^rd
1966 Jul-Sep	72	7	9.7%	37^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	33	82.5%	93^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	40^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	9	9.2%	93^rd
1968 Jan-Mar	38	1	2.6%	61^st
1968 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	48^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	1	1.1%	16^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	3	12.0%	54^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	1	3.6%	22^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	4	8.9%	44^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	12	13.6%	60^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	17^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	12	16.2%	43^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	1	1.3%	10^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	6	7.4%	21^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	26^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	15	16.7%	71^st
1971 Jul-Sep	74	3	4.1%	26^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	30	22.4%	85^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	6	9.4%	48^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	27	23.7%	79^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	13	12.9%	64^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	15	30.0%	75^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	27^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	41	21.5%	89^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	31	23.7%	91^st
1973 Oct-Dec	182	23	12.6%	75^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	6	7.6%	40^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	23	13.5%	67^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	5	3.4%	32^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	7	5.0%	26^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	7	10.3%	71^st
1975 Apr-Jun	199	16	8.0%	63^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	18	11.7%	76^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	21	11.0%	78^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	7	6.6%	54^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	38	14.2%	73^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	281	48	17.1%	86^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	2	28.6%	80^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	17	17.0%	88^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	34	12.5%	76^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	8	4.0%	41^st
1977 Oct-Dec	135	23	17.0%	88^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	9	6.0%	43^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	36	12.0%	69^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	51	16.6%	83^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	76	8	10.5%	73^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	69^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	37	16.7%	89^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	28	14.1%	84^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	32	16.8%	80^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	5	3.4%	18^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	19	9.6%	57^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	27	14.1%	77^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	10	14.9%	64^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	3	20.0%	85^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	27	30.0%	97^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	14	13.2%	85^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	17	12.0%	73^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	7	14.6%	72^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	38^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	27	14.0%	83^rd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	21	21.2%	87^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	3	7.0%	46^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	12	6.6%	50^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	10	7.7%	74^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	13	9.1%	68^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	8	15.1%	78^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	18	8.1%	62^nd
1984 Jul-Sep	96	17	17.7%	89^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	11	30.6%	92^nd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	35^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	13	8.4%	75^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	20	19.8%	95^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	20	13.5%	90^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	86^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	33	25.8%	95^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	26	12.9%	86^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	5	8.3%	67^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