Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Rowland 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 1994. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Rowland is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Enacted Legislation
Rowland was the primary sponsor of 8 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 3313 (103rd): Veterans Health Programs Extension Act of 1994
- H.R. 2535 (103rd): To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide additional authority for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide health care for veterans of the Persian Gulf ...
- H.R. 2034 (103rd): Veterans’ Health Programs Amendments of 1993
- H.R. 749 (102nd): To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept a donation of land for addition to the Ocmulgee National Monument in the State of Georgia.
- H.R. 1811 (100th): Radiation-Exposed Veterans Compensation Act of 1988
- H.J.Res. 538 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the week of May 11, 1986, through May 17, l986, as “Senior Center Week”.
- H.J.Res. 146 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the week of May 12, 1985, through May 18, 1985, as “Senior Center Week”.
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 about one third or more 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
Rowland sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (29%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Social Welfare (13%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Taxation (9%) Environmental Protection (8%) Economics and Public Finance (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%)
Recent Bills
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
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1983 to Nov 1994, Rowland missed 142 of 5,693 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is on par with 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:
- Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills