Rep. Huey Deckard

Former Representative from Indiana’s 8^th District, Republican

Deckard, a Republican, was the representative for Indiana's 8^th congressional district from 1979 to 1982.

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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

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	7	11.1%	75^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	36	16.3%	88^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	14	7.1%	56^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	12	6.3%	33^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	14	9.5%	53^rd
1980 Apr-Jun	197	21	10.7%	63^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	28	14.6%	76^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	26	38.8%	95^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	16	17.8%	84^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	10	9.4%	70^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	18	12.7%	75^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	3	2.5%	28^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	23	11.9%	71^st
1982 Oct-Dec	99	52	52.5%	97^th

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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