Douglas Applegate, former Representative for Ohio's 18th Congressional District

Applegate was the representative for Ohio’s 18^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1977 to 1994.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Applegate is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1994 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 Applegate sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Applegate was the primary sponsor of 12 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 12 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

Applegate sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (40%) Environmental Protection (18%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Taxation (8%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (8%) Labor and Employment (6%) Law (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Applegate recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1977 to Nov 1994, Applegate missed 753 of 9,321 roll call votes, which is 8.1%. This is much worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. 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
1977 Jan-Mar	100	9	9.0%	68^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	23	8.4%	52^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	12	6.1%	56^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	2	1.5%	25^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	49	16.3%	71^st
1978 Jul-Sep	308	17	5.5%	39^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	29	38.2%	94^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	50^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	16	7.2%	56^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	27	13.6%	81^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	29	15.3%	74^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	21	14.2%	76^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	22	11.2%	62^nd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	31	16.1%	83^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	23	34.3%	91^st
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	43^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	90	14	15.6%	86^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	13	12.3%	83^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	142	31	21.8%	94^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	11	22.9%	84^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	16	13.4%	84^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	32	16.6%	89^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	16	16.2%	79^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	7	16.3%	82^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	25	13.7%	82^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	73^rd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	18	12.6%	84^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	60^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	22	9.9%	70^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	4	4.2%	48^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	61^st
1985 Jan-Mar	36	8	22.2%	93^rd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	21	13.6%	93^rd
1985 Jul-Sep	101	8	7.9%	72^nd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	3	2.0%	36^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	6	9.8%	65^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	2	1.6%	28^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	9	4.5%	61^st
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	5	2.7%	35^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	40^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	11	6.6%	55^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	41^st
1988 Apr-Jun	161	9	5.6%	62^nd
1988 Jul-Sep	152	9	5.9%	60^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	3	3.4%	57^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	84^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	2	1.9%	31^st
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	33^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	10	8.3%	80^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	31^st
1990 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	50^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	40^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	51^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	2	1.4%	26^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	5	6.2%	69^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	39^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	3	1.6%	30^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	4	2.0%	44^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	2	4.9%	60^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	4	3.1%	57^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	7	3.7%	60^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	22^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	67^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	5	2.3%	48^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	22	15.5%	92^nd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	26	51.0%	98^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
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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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