Michael Andrews, former Representative for Texas's 25th Congressional District

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Andrews was the representative for Texas’s 25^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1983 to 1994.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Andrews is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1994 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 Andrews sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Andrews sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (31%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (25%) Environmental Protection (10%) Housing and Community Development (8%) Health (8%) Education (6%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (6%) Economics and Public Finance (6%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1983 to Nov 1994, Andrews missed 194 of 5,693 roll call votes, which is 3.4%. This is on par with the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	5	11.6%	68^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	37^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	2	1.4%	16^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	26^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	3	1.3%	9^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	1	1.0%	20^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	49^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	40^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	3	1.9%	24^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	24^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	43^rd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	6	4.7%	63^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	202	2	1.0%	22^nd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	3	5.0%	57^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	1	0.5%	8^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	10	6.0%	50^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	41^st
1988 Apr-Jun	161	1	0.6%	13^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	6	3.9%	45^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	43^rd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	18^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	4	3.3%	44^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	56^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	2	1.1%	30^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	40^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	6	4.3%	62^nd
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	12^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	8	4.1%	61^st
1992 Oct-Oct	41	2	4.9%	60^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	6	3.2%	55^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	7	4.3%	74^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	5	3.7%	72^nd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	52	54.7%	99^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	10	4.6%	69^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	10	7.0%	75^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	9	17.6%	92^nd

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

Rep. Michael Andrews

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