James “J. Gresham” Barrett, former Representative for South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Barrett sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 2010. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Barrett is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Barrett sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (22%) Economics and Public Finance (18%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Law (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Immigration (9%) Health (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

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From Jan 2003 to Dec 2010, Barrett missed 779 of 5,966 roll call votes, which is 13.1%. This is much worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2010. ProPublica has tracked 620 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2003 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	4	1.7%	43^rd
2003 Jul-Sep	193	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	5	4.8%	56^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	1	0.5%	16^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	3	1.9%	39^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	8	2.9%	59^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	1	0.7%	25^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	21	12.9%	93^rd
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	1	0.4%	14^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	5	1.6%	39^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	21	8.0%	84^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	2	1.3%	19^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	4	1.2%	22^nd
2008 Jul-Sep	205	7	3.4%	59^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	15	8.6%	88^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	57	18.8%	98^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	140	52.2%	100^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	134	54.5%	100^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	114	58.5%	99^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	170	77.6%	100^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	13	8.6%	85^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	53	53.5%	98^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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