Levine was the representative for California’s 27th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1983 to 1992.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Levine is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Levine sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Levine was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:
- H.J.Res. 486 (102nd): Designating September 10, 1992, as “National D.A.R.E. Day”.
- H.R. 543 (102nd): Japanese American National Historic Landmark Theme Study Act
- H.J.Res. 197 (102nd): To designate the week of April 15 through 21, 1991, as “National Education First Week”.
- H.J.Res. 217 (102nd): To designate September 12, 1991, as “National DARE Day”.
- H.J.Res. 276 (101st): Designating September 14, 1989, as “National D.A.R.E. Day”.
- H.J.Res. 583 (98th): A joint resolution to designate January 27, 1985, as “National Jerome Kern Day”.
- H.J.Res. 536 (98th): A joint resolution relating to cooperative East-West ventures in space as an alternative to a space arms race.
Does 7 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
Levine sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (26%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (20%) Education (12%) Environmental Protection (11%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Commerce (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Levine’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6038 (102nd): To amend title 35, United States Code, to permit separate patent extensions ...
- H.R. 5594 (102nd): Sequoia National Monument Act of 1992
- H.J.Res. 486 (102nd): Designating September 10, 1992, as “National D.A.R.E. Day”.
- H.R. 5018 (102nd): Save the Ozone Layer Tax Credit
- H.R. 4710 (102nd): To extend the statute of limitations applicable to civil actions brought by ...
- H.R. 4378 (102nd): To prohibit exports of dual use items to terrorist countries, and for ...
- H.R. 4356 (102nd): Safe Schools Act of 1992
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1983 to Oct 1992, Levine missed 584 of 4,571 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. This is much worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
