Daub was the representative for Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1981 to 1988.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Daub is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1988 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 Daub sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1983 to Oct 22, 1988. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Daub sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (34%) Social Welfare (13%) Health (12%) Labor and Employment (11%) Agriculture and Food (10%) Environmental Protection (9%) Economics and Public Finance (6%) Education (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Daub recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 4862 (100th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit …
- H.Res. 453 (100th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect …
- H.R. 4542 (100th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect …
- H.R. 4299 (100th): A bill to extend the duty arrangement on certain unwrought lead for …
- H.R. 4234 (100th): A bill relating to decennial censuses of population.
- H.R. 4147 (100th): A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to allow …
- H.R. 4115 (100th): A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1981 to Oct 1988, Daub missed 219 of 3,547 roll call votes, which is 6.2%. This is on par with the median of 5.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. 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
- 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