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Rep. Newton Steers Jr.

Former Representative from Maryland’s 8^th District, Republican

Steers, a Republican, was the representative for Maryland's 8^th congressional district from 1977 to 1978.

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Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Steers sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Steers is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Steers sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (22%) Private Legislation (15%) Social Welfare (15%) Environmental Protection (11%) Commerce (10%) Taxation (10%) Labor and Employment (10%) Health (8%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1977 to Oct 1978, Steers missed 141 of 1,540 roll call votes, which is 9.2%. This is on par with the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	100	11	11.0%	74^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	115	42.1%	97^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	11^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	1	0.7%	8^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	3	2.0%	15^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	2	0.7%	4^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	5	1.6%	10^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	2	2.6%	20^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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