Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Slack sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (24%) Economics and Public Finance (17%) Social Welfare (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Taxation (11%) Law (8%) Labor and Employment (8%) Health (8%)
Recent Bills
Some of Slack’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5993 (96th): A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to limit ...
- H.R. 5355 (96th): A bill to repeal the carryover basis provisions added by the Tax ...
- H.R. 5204 (96th): Capital Cost Recovery Act of 1979
- H.R. 4892 (96th): A bill to repeal section 506 of the Communications Act of 1934.
- H.R. 4667 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide ...
- H.R. 4392 (96th): Department of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriation ...
- H.Res. 182 (96th): A resolution to disapprove the final recommendations for the basic route system ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1959 to Apr 1980, Slack missed 459 of 7,306 roll call votes, which is 6.3%. This is better than the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills