James Hastings, former Representative for New York's 39th Congressional District

Hastings was the representative for New York’s 39^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1976.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 38^th congressional district as a Republican from 1969 to 1972.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hastings is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1976 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Hastings sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Hastings was the primary sponsor of 8 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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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

Hastings sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (37%) Transportation and Public Works (11%) Labor and Employment (11%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Social Welfare (8%) Private Legislation (8%) Taxation (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1969 to Jan 1976, Hastings missed 414 of 2,787 roll call votes, which is 14.9%. This is much worse than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	5	17.9%	73^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	10	22.2%	86^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	26	29.5%	88^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	30^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	23	31.1%	85^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	18	23.7%	77^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	15	18.5%	56^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	5	22.7%	83^rd
1971 Apr-Jun	90	17	18.9%	72^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	74	24	32.4%	92^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	134	12	9.0%	40^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	4	6.2%	37^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	27	23.7%	76^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	53^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	16	32.0%	80^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	10	27.8%	91^st
1973 Apr-Jun	191	20	10.5%	61^st
1973 Jul-Sep	131	8	6.1%	56^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	13	7.1%	49^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	6	7.6%	44^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	23	13.5%	62^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	9	6.1%	53^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	42	29.8%	92^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	56^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	32	16.1%	84^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	11	7.1%	55^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	16	8.4%	61^st
1976 Jan-Mar	5	5	100.0%	100^th

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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