Stallings was the representative for Idaho’s 2nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1985 to 1992.
Misconduct
In 1987, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct investigated Stallings for improper use of campaign funds (loan to congressional employee) and on Oct. 15, 1987, adopted a public letter of reproval, 12-0.
| Oct. 15, 1987 | House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct adopted a public letter of reproval, 12-0 |
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Stallings is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Stallings sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Stallings was the primary sponsor of 9 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 478 (102nd): For the relief of Norman R. Ricks.
- H.R. 1448 (102nd): To amend the Act of May 12, 1920 (41 Stat. 596), to allow the city of Pocatello, Idaho, to use certain lands for a correctional facility for …
- H.J.Res. 226 (102nd): Designating the month of June 1991 as “National Forest System Month”.
- H.R. 5308 (101st): Fort Hall Indian Water Rights Act of 1990
- H.J.Res. 466 (101st): Designating July 3, 1990, as “Idaho Centennial Day”.
- H.J.Res. 227 (101st): To designate the week of September 10, 1989, through September 16, 1989, as “National Check-Up Week”.
- H.R. 4028 (100th): A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange certain national forest system lands in the Targhee National Forest.
Does 9 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
Stallings sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Private Legislation (18%) Agriculture and Food (14%) Taxation (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Energy (11%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Environmental Protection (11%) Water Resources Development (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Stallings recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5892 (102nd): Accountability in Congress Act of 1992
- H.R. 4065 (102nd): To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and …
- H.R. 4069 (102nd): For the relief of Rollins H. Mayer.
- H.R. 3894 (102nd): To prohibit the transportation of certain nuclear waste to the Idaho National …
- H.R. 3693 (102nd): Idaho Land Exchange Act of 1991
- H.R. 2798 (102nd): National Aquaculture Development Act of 1991
- H.R. 2532 (102nd): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit certain trusts …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1985 to Oct 1992, Stallings missed 196 of 3,664 roll call votes, which is 5.3%. This is on par with the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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
