Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Sharp 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 Sharp sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Sharp was the primary sponsor of 10 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 776 (102nd): Energy Policy Act of 1992
- H.R. 4808 (101st): Solar, Wind, Waste, and Geothermal Power Production Incentives Act of 1990
- H.R. 1722 (101st): Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989
- H.R. 2266 (100th): Pipeline Safety Reauthorization Act of 1988
- H.R. 4158 (100th): National Appliance Energy Conservation Amendments of 1988
- H.R. 4843 (99th): A bill to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for the purpose of improving national energy policy.
- H.R. 1699 (99th): Energy Policy and Conservation Amendments Act of 1985
Does 10 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
Sharp sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Energy (25%) Environmental Protection (20%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (16%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Health (6%) Transportation and Public Works (6%) Social Welfare (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Sharp recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5247 (103rd): To provide for extensions and modifications of certain hydro and renewable energy …
- H.R. 5248 (103rd): Comprehensive One-Call Notification Act of 1994
- H.Con.Res. 298 (103rd): Providing for the printing of the book entitled “Members of the United …
- H.R. 4866 (103rd): Solar, Wind, Waste, and Geothermal Power Production Act of 1994
- H.R. 4750 (103rd): Energy Policy and Conservation Act Amendments of 1994
- H.R. 4752 (103rd): Energy Policy and Conservation Act Amendments of 1994
- H.R. 4751 (103rd): To reauthorize appropriations for the weatherization program under section 422 of the …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1975 to Nov 1994, Sharp missed 352 of 10,594 roll call votes, which is 3.3%. 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, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
