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Rep. Edward Young

Former Representative from South Carolina’s 6^th District, Republican

Young, a Republican, was the representative for South Carolina's 6^th congressional district from 1973 to 1974.

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Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Young sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1974. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Young is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Young sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Agriculture and Food (40%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (20%) Health (15%) Environmental Protection (15%) Commerce (10%)

Recent Bills

Some of Young’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1973 to Dec 1974, Young missed 149 of 1,078 roll call votes, which is 13.8%. This is worse than the median of 9.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	48^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	24	12.6%	66^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	8	6.1%	54^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	13	7.1%	45^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	14	17.7%	81^st
1974 Apr-Jun	170	27	15.9%	68^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	14	9.5%	64^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	46	32.6%	87^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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