Earl Hutto, former Representative for Florida's 1st Congressional District

Hutto was the representative for Florida’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1979 to 1994.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hutto 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 Hutto sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Hutto was the primary sponsor of 15 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 15 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

Hutto sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (27%) Armed Forces and National Security (20%) Government Operations and Politics (20%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (20%) Economics and Public Finance (13%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Hutto recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1979 to Nov 1994, Hutto missed 351 of 7,781 roll call votes, which is 4.5%. This is on par with 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	15	23.8%	89^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	9	4.1%	31^st
1979 Jul-Sep	198	14	7.1%	62^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	190	21	11.1%	58^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	12	8.1%	49^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	8	4.1%	34^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	14	7.3%	52^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	1	1.5%	8^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	43^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	90	4	4.4%	43^rd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	49^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	39^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	6	12.5%	71^st
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	43^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	5	2.6%	27^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	4	4.0%	33^rd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	17	9.3%	66^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	37^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	5	3.5%	37^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	10	4.5%	39^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	3	3.1%	42^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	30^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	40^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	6	3.9%	45^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	3	3.0%	42^nd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	1	0.7%	11^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	90^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	1	0.8%	15^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	1	0.5%	11^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	60^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	9	4.8%	56^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	51^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	5	3.0%	22^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	6	3.7%	48^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	10	6.6%	66^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	43^rd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	18^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	9	7.4%	76^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	56^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	14	9.3%	86^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	4	2.2%	43^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	40^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	48^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	7	8.6%	80^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	4	2.5%	52^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	10	15.2%	94^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	10	5.4%	70^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	1	0.5%	12^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	44^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	5	3.9%	67^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	8	4.2%	65^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	3	1.8%	49^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	4	3.0%	65^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	59^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	34^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	17	12.0%	88^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	2	3.9%	63^rd

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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