Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Denholm 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). Denholm is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Denholm sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Agriculture and Food (29%) Housing and Community Development (17%) Taxation (17%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Transportation and Public Works (6%) Science, Technology, Communications (6%) Economics and Public Finance (6%) Law (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Denholm’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 17646 (93rd): A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to authorize the ...
- H.R. 17263 (93rd): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase ...
- H.R. 17264 (93rd): A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a ...
- H.R. 17262 (93rd): Emergency Dairy, Livestock, and Poultry Act
- H.R. 14801 (93rd): A bill expanding the definition of the word “person” as used in ...
- H.R. 14492 (93rd): A bill to amend the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act to provide ...
- H.R. 14422 (93rd): A bill directing the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to conduct ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1971 to Dec 1974, Denholm missed 157 of 1,727 roll call votes, which is 9.1%. This is on par with the median of 9.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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