Rep. Kenneth “Buddy” MacKay

Former Representative for Florida’s 6^th District

MacKay was the representative for Florida’s 6^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1983 to 1988.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

MacKay is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1988 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 MacKay sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1983 to Oct 22, 1988. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

MacKay was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

H.R. 4354 (98th): A bill to designate the Federal Building in Ocala, Florida, as the “Golden-Collum Memorial Federal Building.

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Does 1 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

MacKay sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (26%) Crime and Law Enforcement (16%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (13%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Social Welfare (10%) International Affairs (10%) Health (6%) Education (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

MacKay recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1983 to Oct 1988, MacKay missed 513 of 2,735 roll call votes, which is 18.8%. This is much worse than the median of 5.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	33^rd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	22	12.1%	74^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	62^nd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	20	14.0%	87^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	5	9.4%	64^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	21	9.4%	66^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	11	11.5%	80^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	6	16.7%	81^st
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	50^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	9	5.8%	59^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	76^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	4	2.7%	37^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	7	11.5%	68^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	9	7.0%	74^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	11	5.4%	63^rd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	11	18.3%	90^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	8	20.5%	93^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	4	2.1%	26^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	7	7.4%	71^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	24	14.4%	87^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	39^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	79	49.1%	97^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	143	94.1%	100^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	89	100.0%	99^th

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