Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Hughes sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the Senate in 1974. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Hughes is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Hughes sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Private Legislation (57%) Armed Forces and National Security (43%)
Recent Bills
Some of Hughes’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 4190 (93rd): A bill to amend chapter 41 of title 10, United States Code, ...
- S. 3144 (93rd): A bill for the relief of Gregg Kenneth LeDuc.
- S. 2876 (93rd): A bill for the relief of Carmichael C. Peters.
- S. 2853 (93rd): A bill to provide for the relief of Lt. (jg.) Charles W. ...
- S. 2472 (93rd): A bill for the relief of Colonel Paul H. Thompson, United States ...
- S. 1788 (93rd): A bill to authorize the modification of the project for flood protection ...
- S.J.Res. 102 (93rd): Joint resolution to authorize and request the President to proclaim June 17, ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1969 to Dec 1974, Hughes missed 459 of 2,759 roll call votes, which is 16.6%. This is worse than the median of 13.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1974. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills