Tucker was the representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1977 to 1978.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Tucker is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978 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 Tucker sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Tucker sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Foreign Trade and International Finance (30%) Agriculture and Food (20%) Social Welfare (13%) Taxation (13%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Health (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Tucker recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 14049 (95th): A bill to amend sections 170, 2055, and 2522 of the Internal …
- H.Con.Res. 615 (95th): A resolution disapproving the proposed “package” of sales of aircraft to Saudi …
- H.Res. 1157 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the …
- H.Res. 1130 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the …
- H.R. 12103 (95th): A bill to include civilian security police of the Department of Defense …
- H.Res. 1116 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the …
- H.R. 11914 (95th): A bill to amend section 218 of the Social Security Act to …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1977 to Oct 1978, Tucker missed 510 of 1,540 roll call votes, which is 33.1%. This is much worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. 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
- 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
