Rep. Gerald “Jerry” Weller

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Weller is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2008 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 Weller sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 7, 2003 to Dec 10, 2008. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Weller was the primary sponsor of 9 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 6681 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Vine Street in New Lenox, Illinois, as the “Jacob M. Lowell Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 2825 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 326 South Main Street in Princeton, Illinois, as the “Owen Lovejoy Princeton Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 5428 (109th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 202 East Washington Street in Morris, Illinois, as the “Joshua A. Terando Morris Post Office …
• H.R. 2113 (109th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 McDonough Street in Joliet, Illinois, as the “John F. Whiteside Joliet Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 3538 (108th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 South Chicago Avenue in Saint Anne, Illinois, as the “Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre Saint …
• H.R. 3536 (108th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 210 Main Street in Malden, Illinois, as the “Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid Malden Post …
• H.R. 3537 (108th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 185 State Street in Manhattan, Illinois, as the “Army Pvt. Shawn Pahnke Manhattan Post Office”.

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Does 9 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

Weller sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (20%) Taxation (19%) Commerce (17%) Social Welfare (10%) Labor and Employment (10%) Energy (9%) Transportation and Public Works (8%) Law (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Weller recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 6944 (110th): Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie Expansion Act of 2008
• H.R. 6681 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …
• H.R. 5688 (110th): TARGET Act
• H.Res. 733 (110th): Recognizing the importance of improving the high school graduation rate of foster …
• H.R. 3243 (110th): Poverty Measurement Improvement Act
• H.R. 3188 (110th): To eliminate the separate work participation rate requirements for 2-parent families under …
• H.R. 2825 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1995 to Dec 2008, Weller missed 427 of 9,048 roll call votes, which is 4.7%. This is worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2008. 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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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
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills