Rep. Larry Combest

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Combest is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2004 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 Combest sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1999 to Dec 7, 2004. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Combest was the primary sponsor of 11 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 2646 (107th): Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
• H.R. 2213 (107th): Crop Year 2001 Agricultural Economic Assistance Act
• H.R. 2559 (106th): Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000
• H.R. 1212 (106th): To protect producers of agricultural commodities who applied for a Crop Revenue Coverage PLUS supplemental endorsement for the 1999 crop year.
• H.R. 882 (106th): To nullify any reservation of funds during fiscal year 1999 for guaranteed loans under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for qualified beginning farmers or ranchers, …
• H.R. 2327 (105th): Drive for Teen Employment Act
• H.R. 3259 (104th): Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997

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Does 11 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

Combest sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Agriculture and Food (16%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Finance and Financial Sector (14%) Commerce (12%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Emergency Management (10%) Environmental Protection (10%) Law (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Combest recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 5376 (107th): Reduce Wildfire Risk bill
• H.R. 2646 (107th): Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
• H.R. 2213 (107th): Crop Year 2001 Agricultural Economic Assistance Act
• H.Res. 46 (107th): Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Agriculture in the …
• H.R. 4502 (106th): Water Pollution Program Improvement Act of 2000
• H.R. 2991 (106th): To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to provide for periodic revision …
• H.R. 2559 (106th): Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1985 to May 2003, Combest missed 337 of 9,750 roll call votes, which is 3.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 2003. 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.

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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
• 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
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills