George Whitehurst, former Representative for Virginia's 2nd Congressional District

Whitehurst was the representative for Virginia’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1969 to 1986.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Whitehurst is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1986 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 Whitehurst sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 5, 1981 to Oct 18, 1986. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Whitehurst was the primary sponsor of 8 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 8 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Whitehurst sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (29%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Taxation (14%) Social Welfare (11%) Animals (11%) Environmental Protection (10%) Health (6%) Immigration (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Whitehurst recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1969 to Oct 1986, Whitehurst missed 792 of 8,862 roll call votes, which is 8.9%. This is worse than the median of 6.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	2	4.4%	26^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	11	12.5%	55^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	3	8.6%	39^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	9	12.2%	36^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	9	11.8%	46^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	14	17.3%	54^th
1971 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	52^nd
1971 Apr-Jun	90	8	8.9%	27^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	4	5.4%	36^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	7	5.2%	22^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	6	9.4%	48^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	9	7.9%	38^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	15	30.0%	75^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	27^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	18	9.4%	59^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	2	1.5%	18^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	11	6.0%	45^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	11	13.9%	68^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	6	3.5%	18^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	2	1.4%	15^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	53	37.6%	97^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	11	16.2%	85^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	5	2.5%	20^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	19	12.3%	81^st
1975 Oct-Dec	191	3	1.6%	20^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	37	13.9%	70^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	15	5.3%	45^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	69^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	14^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	34	12.5%	76^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	22	11.1%	77^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	6	4.4%	42^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	150	2	1.3%	11^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	14	4.7%	31^st
1978 Jul-Sep	308	16	5.2%	37^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	15	19.7%	88^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	32^nd
1979 Apr-Jun	221	12	5.4%	39^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	12	6.1%	50^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	20	10.5%	55^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	14	9.5%	52^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	197	22	11.2%	66^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	17	8.9%	56^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	19	28.4%	89^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	2	2.2%	16^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	4	3.8%	40^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	17	12.0%	73^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	24^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	38^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	22	11.4%	76^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	11	11.1%	63^rd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	3	7.0%	46^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	17	9.3%	62^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	46^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	20	14.0%	86^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	54^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	17	7.6%	59^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	6	6.2%	58^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	8	22.2%	89^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	19^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	8	5.2%	53^rd
1985 Jul-Sep	101	11	10.9%	82^nd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	28	18.9%	96^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	7	11.5%	64^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	17	13.3%	88^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	50	24.8%	95^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	8	13.3%	80^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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