Rep. Douglas Owens

Former Representative for Utah’s 2^nd District

Owens was the representative for Utah’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1987 to 1992.

He was previously the representative for Utah’s 2^nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1973 to 1974.

Bioguide

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Owens is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Owens sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Owens was the primary sponsor of 9 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 9 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

Owens sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Environmental Protection (20%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (17%) International Affairs (15%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Taxation (9%) Health (8%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Owens 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 1992, Owens missed 334 of 3,853 roll call votes, which is 8.7%. This is worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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	36	7	19.4%	76^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	21	11.0%	64^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	19	14.5%	87^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	11	6.0%	47^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	8	10.1%	56^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	14	8.2%	45^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	45	30.4%	95^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	24	17.0%	80^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	5	12.8%	83^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	17	9.1%	80^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	69^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	14	8.4%	66^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	42^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	13	8.1%	73^rd
1988 Jul-Sep	152	2	1.3%	16^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	10	9.5%	87^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	9	7.0%	85^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	16	13.2%	91^st
1990 Jan-Mar	60	4	6.7%	74^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	11	7.3%	80^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	4	2.2%	40^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	50^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	12	8.6%	84^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	4	4.9%	56^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	6	3.7%	62^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	10	15.2%	90^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	11	5.9%	65^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	23	11.7%	82^nd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	60^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