Sen. John East

Former Senator for North Carolina

East was a senator from North Carolina and was a Republican. He served from 1981 to 1986.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. John East [R-NC, 1981-1986]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

East is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1986 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 East sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 5, 1981 to Oct 18, 1986. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

East was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

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Does 4 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

East sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (26%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (22%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (9%) Law (9%) Labor and Employment (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

East recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1981 to Jul 1986, East missed 268 of 2,169 roll call votes, which is 12.4%. This is much worse than the median of 6.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1986. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	57	1	1.8%	32^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	125	4	3.2%	51^st
1981 Jul-Sep	122	4	3.3%	38^th
1981 Oct-Dec	193	16	8.3%	63^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	79	1	1.3%	30^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	2	1.6%	25^th
1982 Jul-Sep	177	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	122	2	1.6%	29^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	2	2.2%	30^th
1983 Oct-Nov	103	5	4.9%	39^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	10	6.9%	56^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	2	2.9%	32^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	34	13	38.2%	99^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	9	40.9%	98^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	87	75.0%	99^th
1985 Jul-Sep	60	29	48.3%	99^th
1985 Oct-Dec	183	81	44.3%	99^th
1986 Jan-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Apr-Jun	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jul-Sep	6	0	0.0%	0^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills