Smith was the representative for Mississippi’s 5th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1989 to 1989.
Bills Sponsored
Smith recently introduced the following legislation:
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1989 to Aug 1989, Smith missed 1 of 208 roll call votes, which is 0.5%. This is better than the median of 4.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1989. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
