Rep. Joseph Evins
Former Representative for Tennessee’s 4th District
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Evins is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1976 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 Evins sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 1, 1976. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Evins was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 14236 (94th): Public Works for Water and Power Development and Energy Research Appropriation Act
- H.R. 8122 (94th): Public Works for Water and Power Development and Energy Research Appropriation Act
- H.R. 15155 (93rd): Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Act
- H.R. 8947 (93rd): Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Act
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Evins sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (23%) Economics and Public Finance (19%) Energy (13%) Commerce (12%) Taxation (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (6%) Labor and Employment (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Evins recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 15461 (94th): A bill to authorize the acquisition of a minimum of 50 additional …
- H.R. 14845 (94th): Small Business Growth and Job Creation Act
- H.R. 14596 (94th): Small Business Growth and Job Creation Act
- H.R. 14236 (94th): Public Works for Water and Power Development and Energy Research Appropriation Act
- H.R. 13687 (94th): Small Business Growth and Job Creation Act
- H.R. 12924 (94th): Consumer Communications Reform Act
- H.Res. 973 (94th): Resolution to provide funds for the further expenses of the investigations and …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1947 to Oct 1976, Evins missed 1,322 of 6,074 roll call votes, which is 21.8%. This is much worse than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1976. 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
- 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
