Myers was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 25th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1975 to 1978.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Myers is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978 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 Myers sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Myers was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 4865 (94th): A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to prohibit certain franked mailings by Members of Congress and certain officers of the United States, other than …
- H.R. 7878 (94th): A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to prohibit certain franked mailings by Members of the Congress and certain officers of the United States, other …
- H.R. 7451 (94th): A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to prohibit certain franked mailings by Members of the Congress and certain officers of the United States, other …
- H.R. 6859 (94th): A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to prohibit certain franked mailings by Members of the Congress and certain officers of the United States, other …
- H.R. 6834 (94th): A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to prohibit certain franked mailings by Members of Congress and certain officers of the United States, other than …
- H.R. 6246 (94th): A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to prohibit certain franked mailings by Members of the Congress and certain officers of the United States, other …
- H.R. 6245 (94th): A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to prohibit certain franked mailings by Members of the Congress and certain officers of the United States, other …
Does 7 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Myers sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Labor and Employment (23%) Government Operations and Politics (20%) Taxation (19%) Energy (11%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%) Sports and Recreation (7%) Emergency Management (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Myers recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 14400 (95th): A bill to create, subject to the provisions of the District of …
- H.R. 14342 (95th): A bill to amend title 18 to make unlawful a willful misrepresentation …
- H.R. 14126 (95th): A bill entitled “Department of Energy Organization Act Amendments of 1978”.
- H.R. 9626 (95th): A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide that …
- H.R. 9625 (95th): A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide that …
- H.R. 9342 (95th): A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide that …
- H.R. 9022 (95th): A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide that …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1975 to Oct 1978, Myers missed 51 of 2,813 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is better than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. 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.
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
- 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
