Rep. Marc Marks

Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 24^th District

Marks was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 24^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1977 to 1982.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Marks is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 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 Marks sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Marks sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Social Welfare (17%) Taxation (17%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Health (13%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Commerce (9%) Emergency Management (9%) Energy (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Marks recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1977 to Dec 1982, Marks missed 456 of 3,626 roll call votes, which is 12.6%. This is much worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	10	3.7%	28^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	7	3.5%	33^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	135	5	3.7%	31^st
1978 Jan-Mar	150	6	4.0%	29^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	4	1.3%	7^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	4	1.3%	9^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	2	2.6%	22^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	61	21	34.4%	95^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	27	12.2%	75^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	24	12.1%	74^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	3	1.6%	8^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	4	2.7%	14^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	11	5.6%	33^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	15	7.8%	52^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	1	1.5%	7^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	4	26.7%	91^st
1981 Apr-Jun	90	9	10.0%	64^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	3	2.8%	31^st
1981 Oct-Dec	142	14	9.9%	64^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	31	64.6%	98^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	66	55.5%	98^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	120	62.2%	98^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	65	65.7%	98^th

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