Rep. Keith Sebelius
Former Representative for Kansas’s 1st District
Sebelius was the representative for Kansas’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1969 to 1980.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Sebelius is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1980 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 Sebelius sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 14, 1975 to Dec 13, 1980. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Sebelius was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:
- H.J.Res. 267 (96th): A joint resolution to provide for designation of Friday, March 7, 1980, as “Teacher Day, United States of America”.
- H.R. 6449 (96th): Rock Island Transition Act
- H.R. 2740 (94th): A bill to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to release restrictions on the use of certain property conveyed to the city of Elkhart, Kans., for airport purposes.
Does 3 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
Sebelius sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (34%) Agriculture and Food (32%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%) Energy (5%) Environmental Protection (4%) Water Resources Development (4%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Sebelius recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 7438 (96th): A bill to establish the Mount St. Helens National Monument in the …
- H.R. 7437 (96th): A bill to require the United States Government and persons carrying on …
- H.R. 7278 (96th): A bill to provide financial assistance to the Accokeek Foundation in the …
- H.R. 7127 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide …
- H.R. 7061 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide tax credits …
- H.R. 6780 (96th): A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish a …
- H.R. 6449 (96th): Rock Island Transition Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1969 to Dec 1980, Sebelius missed 732 of 6,259 roll call votes, which is 11.7%. This is worse than the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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
