![Photo of Rep. Jerry Costello [D-IL12, 1993-2012]](/static/legislator-photos/400082-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Costello is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2013 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 Costello sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 2007 to Jan 1, 2013. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Costello was the primary sponsor of 14 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 2644 (112th): Aviation Jobs and Safety Act of 2011
- H.R. 511 (111th): To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to terminate certain easements held by the Secretary on land owned by the Village of Caseyville, Illinois, and to terminate associated …
- H.R. 2938 (111th): To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project.
- H.R. 6061 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 219 East Main Street in West Frankfort, Illinois, as the “Kenneth James Gray Post Office …
- H.R. 5929 (109th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 950 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, as the “Katherine Dunham Post Office Building”.
- H.R. 5307 (108th): To authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, to be illuminated by pink lights in honor of breast cancer awareness month.
- H.R. 3713 (108th): To designate the Federal building located at 250 West Cherry Street in Carbondale, Illinois the “Senator Paul Simon Federal Building”.
Does 14 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Costello sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Foreign Trade and International Finance (31%) Government Operations and Politics (23%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%) Emergency Management (15%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Costello recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 6450 (112th): Local Modifications to Federal Flood Control Projects Act of 2012
- H.R. 5810 (112th): To suspend temporarily the duty on certain tool blocks.
- H.R. 5808 (112th): To suspend temporarily the duty on certain horizontally-oriented lead shot machines.
- H.R. 5809 (112th): To suspend temporarily the duty on certain cupping machines.
- H.R. 5811 (112th): To suspend temporarily the duty on certain parts of cupping presses.
- H.R. 2644 (112th): Aviation Jobs and Safety Act of 2011
- H.R. 898 (112th): To suspend flood insurance rate map updates in geographic areas in which …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Aug 1988 to Jan 2013, Costello missed 542 of 15,446 roll call votes, which is 3.5%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. 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
- 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
