Rep. Itimous “Tim” Valentine
Former Representative for North Carolina’s 2nd District
Valentine was the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1983 to 1994.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Valentine is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1994 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 Valentine sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Valentine was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Valentine sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Foreign Trade and International Finance (40%) Environmental Protection (18%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Transportation and Public Works (7%) Education (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Valentine recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5287 (103rd): Relating to the tariff treatment of pharmaceutical grade phospholipids.
- H.J.Res. 285 (103rd): To designate the week beginning March 13, 1994, as “National Manufacturing Week”.
- H.R. 3280 (103rd): To suspend temporarily the duties on salmeterol xinafoate (bulk and dosage forms).
- H.R. 3279 (103rd): To suspend temporarily the duty on ranitidine hydrochloride (bulk and dosage forms).
- H.R. 3053 (103rd): To suspend until January 1, 1997, the duty on keto ester.
- H.R. 3054 (103rd): To revive and extend until January 1, 1996, the suspension of duty …
- H.R. 3055 (103rd): To revive and extend until January 1, 1996, the suspension of duty …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1983 to Nov 1994, Valentine missed 292 of 5,693 roll call votes, which is 5.1%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. 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.
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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
