Rep. Gerry Studds
Former Representative from Massachusetts's 10th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title / State / District |
|---|---|
| Representative, Massachusetts's 10th District |
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| Representative, Massachusetts's 12th District |
See Also: Bioguide
Sponsorship Analysis
Studds was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Studds’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Studds’s bills had a total of 205 cosponsors in the 104th Congress.
Use this chart to compare Studds to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104th Congress on leadership and ideology.
This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See 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 12,985 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