Rep. James Rowland Jr.
Former Representative from Georgia's 8th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title / State / District |
|---|---|
| Representative, Georgia's 8th District |
See Also: Bioguide
Sponsorship Analysis
Rowland was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Rowland’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Rowland’s bills had a total of 430 cosponsors in the 103rd Congress.
Use this chart to compare Rowland to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103rd Congress on leadership and ideology.
This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Some of Rowland’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5228 (103rd): Bipartisan Health Care Reform Act of 1994
- H.R. 4425 (103rd): To authorize major medical facility construction projects for the Department of Veterans ...
- H.R. 4013 (103rd): VA State Health Care Reform Pilot Program Act
- H.R. 3955 (103rd): Health Reform Consensus Act of 1994
- H.R. 3573 (103rd): Community Health Improvement Act of 1993
- H.R. 3313 (103rd): Veterans Health Programs Extension Act of 1994
- H.R. 3082 (103rd): Women Veterans Health Improvements Act of 1993
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Voting Record
From Jan 1983 to Nov 1994, Rowland missed 136 of 5,685 roll call votes, which is 2.4%. This is better than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- 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
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills