Rep. Harley Staggers Jr.
Former Representative for West Virginia’s 2nd District
Staggers was the representative for West Virginia’s 2nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1983 to 1992.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Staggers is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Staggers sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Staggers was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 5400 (102nd): Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Service Programs Act of 1992
- H.R. 939 (102nd): Veterans Home Loan Program Amendments of 1992
- H.R. 232 (102nd): Veterans Loans bill
- H.R. 5433 (101st): To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States a condition in a deed conveying certain lands to the Conservation Commission of …
- H.R. 2884 (100th): Uniform Regulatory Jurisdiction Act of 1988
Does 5 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Staggers sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Armed Forces and National Security (26%) Crime and Law Enforcement (19%) Housing and Community Development (14%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Health (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (7%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Staggers recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5400 (102nd): Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Service Programs Act of 1992
- H.R. 4348 (102nd): Waste Management Act of 1992
- H.R. 3716 (102nd): To prohibit certain use of the terms “Visiting Nurse Association”, “Visiting Nurse …
- H.R. 3117 (102nd): For the relief of Ghassan Hasbani.
- H.R. 2771 (102nd): To amend title 38, United States Code, to remove limitations on payment …
- H.R. 2634 (102nd): American Flag Fidelity Act
- H.Con.Res. 164 (102nd): Expressing the sense of Congress concerning the needs of rural areas under …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1983 to Oct 1992, Staggers missed 165 of 4,569 roll call votes, which is 3.6%. This is on par with the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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.
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
- 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
