![Photo of Rep. George Brown [D-CA42, 1993-1999]](/data/photos/400572-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Brown 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 2000. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Brown is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Enacted Legislation
Brown was the primary sponsor of 21 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 6135 (102nd): National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1993
- H.R. 6133 (102nd): Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992
- H.J.Res. 542 (102nd): Designating the week beginning November 8, 1992, as “Hire a Veteran Week”.
- H.R. 3795 (102nd): To amend title 28, United States Code, to establish 3 divisions in the Central Judicial District of California.
- H.R. 5343 (102nd): To make technical amendments to the American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991 and the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act with respect to their treatment of the SI ...
- H.R. 1988 (102nd): National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992
- H.J.Res. 280 (102nd): To designate the week beginning November 10, 1991, as “Hire a Veteran Week”.
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 about one third or more 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
Brown sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (19%) Science, Technology, Communications (16%) Economics and Public Finance (15%) Labor and Employment (12%) Commerce (11%) Education (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Law (9%)
Recent Bills
Some of Brown’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 2077 (106th): Sequoia Ecosystem and Recreation Preserve Act of 1999
- H.Con.Res. 126 (106th): To honor the ExploraVision Awards Program and to encourage more students to ...
- H.R. 1527 (106th): National Aeronautics and Space Administration Academic Opportunities Act for Fiscal Years 2000, ...
- H.R. 1202 (106th): Captive Exotic Animal Protection Act of 1999
- H.R. 666 (106th): National Materials Corridor Partnership Act of 1999
- H.R. 88 (106th): To amend the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1999, to repeal ...
- H.R. 4448 (105th): Buffalo Coin Act of 1998
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1963 to Jul 1999, Brown missed 2,345 of 16,051 roll call votes, which is 14.6%. This is much worse than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1999. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills
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