L. Callahan, former Representative for Alabama's 1st Congressional District

Enacted Legislation

Callahan was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:

H.R. 2311 (107th): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2002
H.R. 4811 (106th): Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001
H.R. 2159 (105th): Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1998
H.J.Res. 92 (105th): Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact
H.R. 1868 (104th): Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996
H.R. 3414 (100th): A bill for the relief of Meenakshiben P. Patel.

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

Callahan sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Foreign Trade and International Finance (20%) Environmental Protection (13%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Commerce (10%) Labor and Employment (10%) Law (10%)

Recent Bills

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1985 to Nov 2002, Callahan missed 518 of 9,524 roll call votes, which is 5.4%. This is much worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	19^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	2	1.3%	15^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	1	0.7%	13^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	44^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	5	3.9%	53^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	202	10	5.0%	66^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	41^st
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	42^nd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	3	1.6%	28^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	64^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	11	6.6%	53^rd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	18	11.8%	83^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	9	8.6%	89^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	18^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	3	2.5%	35^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	57^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	11	7.3%	82^nd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	51^st
1990 Oct-Oct	143	12	8.4%	79^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	53^rd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	5	3.6%	61^st
1991 Jul-Sep	81	17	21.0%	95^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	30	18.5%	98^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	1	1.5%	30^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	10	5.4%	75^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	7	3.6%	60^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	7	5.5%	79^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	11	5.8%	74^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	25^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	3	2.2%	59^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	66^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	1	0.5%	18^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	11	7.7%	85^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	15	29.4%	98^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	1	0.4%	18^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	2	1.1%	33^rd
1995 Jul-Sep	232	9	3.9%	76^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	15	8.1%	90^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	11	10.0%	92^nd
1996 Apr-Jun	182	4	2.2%	50^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	1	0.6%	21^st
1997 Jan-Mar	71	2	2.8%	58^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	8	4.6%	80^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	4	1.7%	49^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	7	4.3%	70^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	6	6.7%	80^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	5	2.7%	58^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	10	5.0%	79^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	10	13.5%	93^rd
1999 Jan-Mar	77	7	9.1%	93^rd
1999 Apr-Jun	184	3	1.6%	44^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	5	3.4%	60^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	10	10.5%	88^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	23	8.3%	89^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	68^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	3	3.0%	25^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	7	9.3%	89^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	15	11.1%	96^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	8	5.4%	83^rd
2001 Oct-Dec	153	12	7.8%	86^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	7	8.9%	86^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	34	16.7%	95^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	36	25.5%	97^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	20	32.8%	97^th

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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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Rep. L. Callahan

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Missed Votes

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