Rep. John LaFalce

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

LaFalce is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2002 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 LaFalce sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 7, 1997 to Nov 19, 2002. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

LaFalce was the primary sponsor of 18 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 5417 (106th): McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
• H.R. 4322 (103rd): To amend the Small Business Act to increase the authorization for the development company program, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 4297 (103rd): Small Business Administration Amendments of 1994
• H.R. 4111 (102nd): Small Business Credit and Business Opportunity Enhancement Act of 1992
• H.R. 2629 (102nd): Women’s Business Development Act of 1991
• H.R. 4793 (101st): Small Business Administration Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 1990
• H.R. 4773 (101st): White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act

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Does 18 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

LaFalce sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (20%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Commerce (16%) Law (13%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Housing and Community Development (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (8%) Social Welfare (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

LaFalce recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 5621 (107th): Federal Credit Union Services Expansion Act of 2002
• H.R. 5507 (107th): Truth in Lending Inflation Adjustment Act
• H.R. 5288 (107th): Commuter Students From Border Nations Act of 2002
• H.R. 5070 (107th): Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002
• H.R. 4817 (107th): Elderly Housing Quality Improvement Act of 2002
• H.R. 4818 (107th): Mortgage Loan Consumer Protection Act
• H.R. 4083 (107th): Corporate Responsibility Act of 2002

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1975 to Nov 2002, LaFalce missed 890 of 15,329 roll call votes, which is 5.8%. This is much worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. 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.

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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