Teague was the representative for Texas’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1946 to 1978.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Teague is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978 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 Teague sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Teague was the primary sponsor of 37 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.J.Res. 685 (95th): Joint resolution to designate October 7, 1979, the Sunday of “Fire Prevention Week” as “Firefighters’ Memorial Sunday”; to designate October 14, 1978, as “National Jogging Day”; and …
- H.R. 11400 (95th): National Science Foundation Authorization Act
- H.R. 11291 (95th): A bill to authorize appropriations for the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974, and to change the name of the National Fire Prevention and Control …
- H.R. 11401 (95th): National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act
- H.R. 11232 (95th): An Act to authorize appropriations to carry out the Standard Reference Data Act, and to authorize appropriations for the National Bureau of Standards.
- H.J.Res. 1038 (95th): A resolution to designate May 21, 1978, as “Firefighters’ Memorial Sunday”.
- H.J.Res. 1037 (95th): A resolution to designate May 21, 1978, as “Firefighters’ Memorial Sunday”.
Does 37 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
Teague sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (22%) Armed Forces and National Security (18%) Science, Technology, Communications (16%) Education (13%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Energy (9%) Law (7%) Labor and Employment (5%)
Recent Bills
Some of Teague’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Res. 1337 (95th): A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect …
- H.R. 13939 (95th): Impact of Science and Technology on Society Act
- H.R. 13525 (95th): A bill relating to the employment of cemetery superintendents and assistant superintendents …
- H.J.Res. 1038 (95th): A resolution to designate May 21, 1978, as “Firefighters’ Memorial Sunday”.
- H.J.Res. 1037 (95th): A resolution to designate May 21, 1978, as “Firefighters’ Memorial Sunday”.
- H.J.Res. 1006 (95th): A resolution to designate May 21, 1978, as “Firefighters’ Memorial Sunday”.
- H.J.Res. 981 (95th): A resolution to designate May 21, 1978, as “Firefighters’ Memorial Sunday”.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1947 to Oct 1978, Teague missed 2,649 of 7,614 roll call votes, which is 34.8%. This is much worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. 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
- 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
