Mattingly was a senator from Georgia and was a Republican. He served from 1981 to 1986.
![Photo of Sen. Mack Mattingly [R-GA, 1981-1986]](/static/legislator-photos/407275-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Mattingly is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1986 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 Mattingly sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 5, 1981 to Oct 18, 1986. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Mattingly was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- S. 2838 (99th): Georgia Wilderness Act of 1986
- S.J.Res. 220 (99th): A joint resolution to provide for the designation of September 19, 1986, as “National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day”.
- S.J.Res. 33 (99th): A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate May 12, 1985 to June 16, 1985, as “Family Reunion Month”.
- S.J.Res. 94 (98th): A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate May 13, 1984, to June 17, 1984, as “Family Reunion Month”.
- S. 505 (98th): A bill to designate the Federal building to be constructed in Savannah, Georgia, as the “Juliette Gordon Low Federal Building”.
Does 5 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Mattingly sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Economics and Public Finance (27%) Taxation (17%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Agriculture and Food (10%) Social Welfare (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (10%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (6%) Labor and Employment (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Mattingly recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 2843 (99th): A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to minimize …
- S. 2838 (99th): Georgia Wilderness Act of 1986
- S. 2805 (99th): A bill to provide for the imposition of the death penalty for …
- S. 2789 (99th): A bill to provide emergency disaster relief for 1986 to agricultural producers …
- S. 2612 (99th): Terrorist Subsidy Prevention Act
- S.Res. 409 (99th): A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that the tax …
- S.J.Res. 307 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the week of April 18 through April …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1981 to Oct 1986, Mattingly missed 40 of 2,368 roll call votes, which is 1.7%. This is better than the median of 6.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1986. 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.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
