Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Tate 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 1996. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Tate is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Tate sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (22%) Labor and Employment (16%) Law (16%) Crime and Law Enforcement (13%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (9%) Taxation (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Agriculture and Food (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Tate’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4011 (104th): Congressional Pension Forfeiture Act of 1996
- H.R. 3802 (104th): Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996
- H.R. 3655 (104th): Federal Prison Reform Act of 1996
- H.R. 3490 (104th): Federal Prison Reform Act of 1996
- H.R. 3447 (104th): Congressional Pension Integrity Act of 1996
- H.R. 3345 (104th): Drive Away From Ethanol Welfare Act of 1996
- H.R. 2898 (104th): To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens removed ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1995 to Sep 1996, Tate missed 11 of 1,340 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills