George Shipley, former Representative for Illinois's 22nd Congressional District

Shipley was the representative for Illinois’s 22^nd congressional district as a Democrat. He served from 1973 to 1978.

He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 23^rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1959 to 1972.

Enacted Legislation

Shipley was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

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

Shipley sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (26%) Social Welfare (15%) Health (12%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Taxation (12%) Agriculture and Food (12%) Transportation and Public Works (6%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1978, Shipley missed 1,275 of 6,506 roll call votes, which is 19.6%. This is much worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	70	3	4.3%	92^nd
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	1	1.5%	49^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	61^st
1962 Oct-Oct	22	6	27.3%	98^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	3	9.7%	96^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	6	12.0%	90^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	64^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	2	5.9%	85^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	17	34.7%	99^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	1	25.0%	82^nd
1965 Jan-Mar	28	6	21.4%	89^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	13	24.5%	87^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	20	20.4%	87^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	11	50.0%	96^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	5	16.7%	72^nd
1966 Apr-Jun	51	6	11.8%	51^st
1966 Jul-Sep	72	4	5.6%	27^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	25	62.5%	81^st
1967 Jan-Mar	31	2	6.5%	82^nd
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	1	1.7%	44^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	4	4.1%	69^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	1	1.3%	26^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	4	4.4%	54^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	7	28.0%	82^nd
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	5	17.9%	78^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	7	15.6%	75^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	8	9.1%	40^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	5	14.3%	63^rd
1970 Apr-Jun	74	9	12.2%	35^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	22	28.9%	86^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	33	40.7%	90^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	21	23.3%	83^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	74	3	4.1%	29^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	21	15.7%	64^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	12	18.8%	81^st
1972 Apr-Jun	114	13	11.4%	47^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	22	21.8%	82^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	17	34.0%	84^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	59^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	20	10.5%	61^st
1973 Jul-Sep	131	18	13.7%	82^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	182	23	12.6%	74^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	2	2.5%	18^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	27	15.9%	75^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	27	18.2%	92^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	49	34.8%	95^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	18	26.5%	97^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	34	17.1%	89^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	20	13.0%	82^nd
1975 Oct-Dec	191	4	2.1%	20^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	11	10.4%	69^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	7	2.6%	13^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	54	19.2%	88^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	15	15.0%	85^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	36	13.2%	77^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	53	26.8%	95^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	13	9.6%	63^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	150	62	41.3%	97^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	132	44.0%	96^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	222	72.1%	99^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	76	100.0%	99^th

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

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