Deckard was the representative for Indiana’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1979 to 1982.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Deckard sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Labor and Employment (33%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (33%) Private Legislation (33%)
Recent Bills
Some of Deckard’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6415 (97th): A bill to rescind the tax benefits provided during 1981 to Members ...
- H.R. 3418 (97th): A bill for the relief of Honesto K. Fenol, doctor of medicine, ...
- H.R. 7769 (96th): A bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of ...
- H.R. 7768 (96th): A bill to amend the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of ...
- H.R. 7783 (96th): A bill for the relief of Honesto K. Fenol, doctor of medicine, ...
- H.R. 7623 (96th): A bill to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 ...
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1979 to Dec 1982, Deckard missed 280 of 2,088 roll call votes, which is 13.4%. This is much worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
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