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. 10645 (95th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to eliminate ...
- H.R. 10644 (95th): A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide 100 percent ...
- 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 ...
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Voting Record
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.
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