Kweisi Mfume, former Representative for Maryland's 7th Congressional District

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)

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...

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Voting Record

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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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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	57^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	1	0.5%	9^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	51^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	10	6.0%	49^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	58^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	3	1.9%	28^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	3	2.0%	24^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	54^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	6	5.7%	68^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	7	5.5%	81^st
1989 Oct-Nov	121	6	5.0%	61^st
1990 Jan-Mar	60	3	5.0%	73^rd
1990 Apr-Jun	150	8	5.3%	73^rd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	8	4.4%	67^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	7	4.9%	63^rd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	6	9.7%	89^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	7	5.0%	68^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	6	7.4%	73^rd
1991 Oct-Nov	162	4	2.5%	51^st
1992 Jan-Mar	66	2	3.0%	49^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	8	4.3%	60^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	4	2.0%	45^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	44^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	3	2.4%	50^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	13	6.8%	75^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	12	7.3%	88^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	3	2.2%	57^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	11	11.6%	89^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	6	2.7%	59^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	8	5.6%	74^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	8	15.7%	94^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	20	7.2%	92^nd
1995 Apr-Jun	189	18	9.5%	91^st
1995 Jul-Sep	232	23	9.9%	92^nd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	29	15.7%	97^th
1996 Jan-Mar	30	8	26.7%	97^th

Primary Sources

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

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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