Rep. Howard Coble

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2014 Report Card for Coble.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Coble is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2014 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 Coble sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2009 to Dec 11, 2014. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Coble was the primary sponsor of 17 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 2871 (113th): To amend title 28, United States Code, to modify the composition of the southern judicial district of Mississippi to improve judicial efficiency, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 3626 (113th): To extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years.
• H.R. 2633 (112th): Appeal Time Clarification Act of 2011
• H.R. 3581 (111th): To amend title 36, United States Code, to include in the Federal charter of the Reserve Officers Association leadership positions newly added in its constitution and bylaws.
• H.R. 2048 (107th): To require a report on the operations of the State Justice Institute.
• H.R. 2336 (107th): An act to extend for 4 years, through December 31, 2005, the authority to redact financial disclosure statements of judicial employees and judicial officers.
• H.R. 821 (107th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1030 South Church Street in Asheboro, North Carolina, as the “W. Joe Trogdon Post Office …

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Does 17 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

Coble sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Foreign Trade and International Finance (80%) Law (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Coble recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 5036 (113th): Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 2014
• H.R. 3626 (113th): To extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years.
• H.R. 2931 (113th): Fairness in Health Care Claims, Guidance, and Investigations Act
• H.R. 2871 (113th): To amend title 28, United States Code, to modify the composition of …
• H.R. 2357 (113th): To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Members must …
• H.R. 1129 (113th): Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013
• H.R. 4519 (112th): To extend and modify the temporary reduction of duty on Azoxystrobin.

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1985 to Dec 2014, Coble missed 692 of 18,300 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than the median of 2.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2014. 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.

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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
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills