Bolling was the representative for Missouri’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1949 to 1982.
![Photo of Rep. Richard Bolling [D-MO5, 1949-1982]](/data/photos/401573-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Bolling is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Bolling sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Bolling was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 4331 (97th): Highway Revenue Act of 1981
- H.J.Res. 239 (95th): A joint resolution extending the filing date of l977 Joint Economic Report.
- H.J.Res. 905 (93rd): Joint resolution extending the filing date of the 1974 Joint Economic Committee Report.
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 about one third or more 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
Bolling sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (100%)
Recent Bills
Some of Bolling’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 7403 (97th): A bill for the relief of certain Government physicians who were paid ...
- H.Res. 604 (97th): A resolution providing for the consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. ...
- H.Res. 601 (97th): A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 3809) to ...
- H.Res. 596 (97th): A resolution providing for the consideration of joint resolution (H.J. Res. 599) ...
- H.Res. 587 (97th): A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 6995) to ...
- H.Res. 581 (97th): A resolution to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to ...
- H.Res. 569 (97th): A resolution providing for the consideration of the conference report on the ...
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1949 to Dec 1982, Bolling missed 2,102 of 9,539 roll call votes, which is 22.0%. This is much worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills