Myers was the representative for Indiana’s 7th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1967 to 1996.
![Photo of Rep. John Myers [R-IN7, 1967-1996]](/static/legislator-photos/408092-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Myers is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1996 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Myers sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1991 to Oct 3, 1996. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Myers was the primary sponsor of 12 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 3816 (104th): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997
- H.R. 1905 (104th): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1996
- H.J.Res. 315 (103rd): Designating May 30, 1994, through June 6, 1994 as a “Time for the National Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of World War II”.
- H.J.Res. 79 (103rd): To authorize the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning on November 21, 1993 and November 20, 1994, as “National Family Week”.
- H.J.Res. 80 (103rd): Designating June 1, 1993, through June 7, 1993, as a “Week for the National Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of World War II”.
- H.J.Res. 371 (102nd): Designating May 31-June 6, 1992, as a “Week for the National Observance of the 50th Anniversary of World War II”.
- H.J.Res. 23 (102nd): To authorize the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning on November 24, 1991 and November 22, 1992, as “National Family Week”.
Does 12 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
Myers sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Social Welfare (16%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Taxation (12%) Labor and Employment (12%) Commerce (12%) Energy (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (8%)
Recent Bills
Some of Myers’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 3816 (104th): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997
- H.R. 1905 (104th): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1996
- H.R. 1370 (104th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce mandatory premiums ...
- H.J.Res. 315 (103rd): Designating May 30, 1994, through June 6, 1994 as a “Time for ...
- H.J.Res. 274 (103rd): To authorize the President to issue a proclamation designating October, 1993 as ...
- H.J.Res. 184 (103rd): To authorize the President to issue a proclamation designating Sunday, August 1, ...
- H.R. 854 (103rd): Senior Citizen Capital Gains Rate Reduction Act of 1993
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1967 to Sep 1996, Myers missed 586 of 14,580 roll call votes, which is 4.0%. This is on par with the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
