Malcolm Wallop, former Senator for Wyoming

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Wallop sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the Senate in 1994. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Wallop is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Wallop sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (23%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (20%) Taxation (11%) Environmental Protection (11%) Labor and Employment (9%) Law (9%) Housing and Community Development (9%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%)

Recent Bills

Some of Wallop’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1977 to Dec 1994, Wallop missed 620 of 7,289 roll call votes, which is 8.5%. This is much worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	92	2	2.2%	16^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	16	9.0%	48^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	29	12.4%	94^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	6	4.5%	19^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	2	2.6%	6^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	9	7.6%	61^st
1978 Jul-Sep	237	32	13.5%	68^th
1978 Oct-Oct	86	13	15.1%	87^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	3	9.4%	73^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	121	13	10.7%	73^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	171	15	8.8%	60^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	5	2.7%	13^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	2	3.0%	24^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	12	5.6%	37^th
1980 Jul-Sep	179	25	14.0%	93^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	84	18	21.4%	80^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	2	3.5%	66^th
1981 Apr-Jun	125	7	5.6%	74^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	4	3.3%	43^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	193	20	10.4%	74^th
1982 Feb-Mar	79	5	6.3%	70^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	22	17.3%	92^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	177	14	7.9%	79^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	3	3.5%	58^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	5	9.3%	76^th
1983 Apr-Jun	122	3	2.5%	42^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	92	5	5.4%	64^th
1983 Oct-Nov	103	10	9.7%	65^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	2	4.4%	51^st
1984 Apr-Jun	144	9	6.3%	55^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	8	11.8%	82^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	34	5	14.7%	89^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	4	18.2%	97^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	12	10.3%	92^nd
1985 Jul-Sep	60	4	6.7%	66^th
1985 Oct-Dec	183	15	8.2%	77^th
1986 Jan-Mar	51	2	3.9%	52^nd
1986 Apr-Jun	103	7	6.8%	84^th
1986 Jul-Sep	149	6	4.0%	79^th
1986 Oct-Oct	56	1	1.8%	59^th
1987 Jan-Mar	50	7	14.0%	93^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	123	8	6.5%	72^nd
1987 Jul-Sep	120	7	5.8%	68^th
1987 Oct-Dec	127	16	12.6%	93^rd
1988 Jan-Mar	84	18	21.4%	94^th
1988 Apr-Jun	137	11	8.0%	84^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	9	7.1%	77^th
1988 Oct-Oct	31	28	90.3%	99^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	4	5.2%	84^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	8	6.8%	95^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	6	6.6%	89^th
1990 Jan-Mar	48	6	12.5%	98^th
1990 Apr-Jun	95	5	5.3%	86^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	20	17.5%	99^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	1	2.4%	75^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	7	9.5%	94^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	3	4.3%	73^rd
1992 Jan-Mar	61	1	1.6%	57^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	15	20.3%	98^th
1992 Jul-Sep	117	1	0.9%	36^th
1992 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Feb-Mar	93	3	3.2%	87^th
1993 Apr-Jun	99	2	2.0%	52^nd
1993 Jul-Sep	109	10	9.2%	96^th
1993 Oct-Nov	94	5	5.3%	85^th
1994 Jan-Mar	86	8	9.3%	83^rd
1994 Apr-Jun	92	7	7.6%	91^st
1994 Jul-Sep	136	24	17.6%	99^th
1994 Oct-Dec	15	3	20.0%	95^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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