Howard Cannon, former Senator for Nevada

Cannon was a senator from Nevada and was a Democrat. He served from 1959 to 1982.

Photo of Sen. Howard Cannon [D-NV, 1959-1982]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Cannon is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1982 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Cannon sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 23, 1982. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Cannon was the primary sponsor of 60 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 60 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Cannon sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Transportation and Public Works (23%) Economics and Public Finance (21%) Government Operations and Politics (19%) Environmental Protection (9%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Science, Technology, Communications (7%) Taxation (6%)

Recent Bills

Some of Cannon’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1959 to Dec 1982, Cannon missed 1,438 of 9,723 roll call votes, which is 14.8%. This is much worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	128	4	3.1%	10^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	79	9	11.4%	60^th
1960 May-Aug	123	11	8.9%	55^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	137	5	3.6%	38^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	6	16.7%	62^nd
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	8	12.9%	62^nd
1962 Jul-Sep	122	11	9.0%	54^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	80^th
1963 Apr-Jun	73	13	17.8%	93^rd
1963 Jul-Sep	61	10	16.4%	60^th
1963 Oct-Dec	87	7	8.0%	27^th
1964 Jan-Mar	60	15	25.0%	80^th
1964 Apr-Jun	138	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	106	16	15.1%	60^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	17	16.0%	79^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	7	6.6%	57^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	4	26.7%	71^st
1966 Jan-Mar	28	9	32.1%	93^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	56	3	5.4%	20^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	10	8.4%	67^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	10	28.6%	67^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	9	17.0%	68^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	2	2.9%	11^th
1967 Jul-Sep	81	10	12.3%	53^rd
1967 Oct-Dec	111	42	37.8%	89^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	5	7.2%	32^nd
1968 Apr-Jun	96	8	8.3%	32^nd
1968 Jul-Sep	89	13	14.6%	37^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	5	18.5%	42^nd
1969 Jan-Mar	17	4	23.5%	92^nd
1969 Apr-Jun	26	1	3.8%	19^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	7	15.9%	88^th
1969 Oct-Dec	158	43	27.2%	81^st
1970 Jan-Mar	100	2	2.0%	8^th
1970 Apr-Jun	92	20	21.7%	73^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	123	85	69.1%	96^th
1970 Oct-Dec	106	49	46.2%	85^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	1	4.0%	17^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	22	24.7%	71^st
1971 Jul-Sep	109	5	4.6%	13^th
1971 Oct-Dec	202	26	12.9%	35^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	24	20.2%	65^th
1972 Apr-Jun	130	29	22.3%	74^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	57	27.7%	77^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	15	20.0%	58^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	6	9.0%	50^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	38	19.8%	84^th
1973 Jul-Sep	167	14	8.4%	58^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	18	10.7%	58^th
1974 Jan-Mar	94	20	21.3%	82^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	179	6	3.4%	25^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	7	5.1%	25^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	13	9.8%	48^th
1975 Jan-Mar	118	6	5.1%	49^th
1975 Apr-Jun	141	17	12.1%	64^th
1975 Jul-Sep	170	28	16.5%	87^th
1975 Oct-Dec	182	14	7.7%	42^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	109	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	9	3.4%	13^th
1976 Jul-Sep	315	91	28.9%	89^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	1	7.7%	29^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	21	22.8%	85^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	18	10.1%	53^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	233	8	3.4%	32^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	133	23	17.3%	79^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	4	5.1%	23^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	119	19	16.0%	85^th
1978 Jul-Sep	237	6	2.5%	15^th
1978 Oct-Oct	86	10	11.6%	58^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	1	3.1%	42^nd
1979 Apr-Jun	121	15	12.4%	77^th
1979 Jul-Sep	171	2	1.2%	14^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	33	17.9%	85^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	11	16.4%	84^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	39	18.1%	87^th
1980 Jul-Sep	179	11	6.1%	51^st
1980 Oct-Dec	84	42	50.0%	98^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	10	17.5%	94^th
1981 Apr-Jun	125	52	41.6%	99^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	18	14.8%	89^th
1981 Oct-Dec	193	57	29.5%	97^th
1982 Feb-Mar	79	12	15.2%	85^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	28	22.0%	94^th
1982 Jul-Sep	177	36	20.3%	98^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	13	15.1%	87^th

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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