Enacted Legislation
Shipley was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 12935 (95th): Legislative Branch Appropriations Act
- H.R. 10684 (95th): Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act
- H.R. 7932 (95th): Legislative Branch Appropriation Act
- H.R. 14238 (94th): Legislative Branch Appropriation Act
Does 4 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
Shipley sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (26%) Social Welfare (15%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Taxation (12%) Agriculture and Food (12%) Health (12%) Transportation and Public Works (6%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Shipley’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 12935 (95th): Legislative Branch Appropriations Act
- H.R. 10684 (95th): Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act
- H.R. 10644 (95th): A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide 100 percent ...
- H.R. 10645 (95th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to eliminate ...
- H.Res. 696 (95th): Resolution to maximize local nighttime radio service.
- H.R. 7932 (95th): Legislative Branch Appropriation Act
- H.R. 6828 (95th): A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish the ...
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.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
