Rep. Gerry Studds
Former Representative from Massachusetts’s 10th District
Democrat
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | State / District |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Massachusetts's 10th District | |
| Representative | Massachusetts's 12th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Studds sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into their position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Studds is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Some of Studds’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4111 (104th): Federal Law Enforcement Dependents Assistance Act of 1996
- H.R. 4101 (104th): Rescue Diver Training Act of 1996
- H.R. 3022 (104th): Cardiac Arrest Survival Act
- H.R. 2956 (104th): Fisheries Disaster Assistance Act of 1996
- H.R. 2957 (104th): To deauthorize a portion of the navigation project for Weymouth-Fore and Town ...
- H.R. 2763 (104th): To establish the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, and for other ...
- H.R. 2187 (104th): To deauthorize a portion of the navigation project for Cohasset Harbor, Massachusetts.
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Voting Record
From Jan 1973 to Sep 1996, Studds missed 366 of 12,986 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills