Rep. Kweisi Mfume

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Mfume sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1996. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Mfume is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Enacted Legislation

Mfume was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• H.J.Res. 367 (101st): Designating February 11 through 17, 1990, as “Vocational-Technical Education Week”.
• H.J.Res. 572 (100th): A joint resolution designating November 28 through December 2, 1988, as “Vocational-Technical Education Week”.

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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 about one third or more 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

Mfume sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Commerce (19%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Education (15%) Crime and Law Enforcement (15%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (6%)

Recent Bills

Some of Mfume’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 2730 (104th): To eliminate segregationist language from the Second Morrill Act.
• H.R. 113 (104th): Automobile Insurance Information Act of 1995
• H.R. 114 (104th): Minority Business Development Act of 1993
• H.R. 115 (104th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the deduction ...
• H.R. 111 (104th): Minority Enterprise Development Act of 1995
• H.R. 112 (104th): Electronic Anti-Stalking Act of 1995
• H.R. 5271 (103rd): Minority Enterprise Development Act of 1994

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1987 to Feb 1996, Mfume missed 271 of 4,812 roll call votes, which is 5.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
• GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills