Rep. Michael Oxley

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Oxley is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2006 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 Oxley sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2001 to Dec 8, 2006. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Oxley was the primary sponsor of 11 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 4636 (109th): Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming Amendments Act of 2005
• H.R. 2405 (108th): Video Voyeurism Prevention Act of 2003
• H.R. 11 (108th): National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2003
• H.R. 3210 (107th): Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002
• H.R. 3763 (107th): Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• H.R. 4782 (107th): To extend the authority of the Export-Import Bank until June 14, 2002.
• H.R. 1832 (106th): Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act

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Does 11 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Oxley sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (19%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Commerce (13%) Emergency Management (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Law (9%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Oxley recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.Res. 895 (109th): Supporting intelligence and law enforcement programs to track terrorists and terrorist finances …
• H.R. 4636 (109th): Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming Amendments Act of 2005
• H.R. 4320 (109th): National Flood Insurance Program Commitment to Policyholders and Reform Act of 2005
• H.Res. 513 (109th): Electing a certain Member to a certain standing committee of the House …
• H.R. 2660 (109th): Fair Choice and Competition in Real Estate Act of 2005
• H.Res. 100 (109th): Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on Financial Services in …
• H.R. 3183 (108th): Depositary Services Efficiency and Cost Reduction Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jul 1981 to Dec 2006, Oxley missed 823 of 13,542 roll call votes, which is 6.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. 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.

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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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills