![Photo of Sen. Malcolm Wallop [R-WY, 1977-1994]](/data/photos/411271-200px.jpeg)
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)
Enacted Legislation
Wallop was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S.J.Res. 179 (102nd): A bill to designate the week beginning August 25, 1991, as “National Parks Week”.
- S.J.Res. 271 (101st): A joint resolution to designate July 10, 1990 as “Wyoming Centennial Day”.
- S.J.Res. 313 (100th): A joint resolution designating May 1988 as “Take Pride in America Month”.
- S.J.Res. 190 (100th): A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating June 6-12, 1988 as “National Fishing Week”.
- S. 2202 (100th): Recreation and Public Purposes Amendment Act of 1988
- S.J.Res. 18 (100th): A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating June 1 through June 7, 1987 as “National Fishing Week”.
- S. 2266 (99th): National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986
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 110th Congress).
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%) Economics and Public Finance (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Wallop’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 2568 (103rd): Public Land Emancipation and Management Improvement Act
- S. 2566 (103rd): A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to restore ...
- S. 2521 (103rd): Regulatory Flexibility Amendments Act of 1994
- S. 2523 (103rd): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit ...
- S.Res. 251 (103rd): A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding human rights violations ...
- S. 2229 (103rd): Tax Rebate to Fight Crime Act
- S. 1698 (103rd): Rural Community Bank Paperwork Relief Act of 1993
Voting Record
Missed Votes
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.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills