Rep. Robert Bergland
Former Representative for Minnesota’s 7th District
Bergland was the representative for Minnesota’s 7th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1971 to 1978.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Bergland 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 Bergland sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Bergland was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 12207 (94th): Rural Electrification Administration Technical Amendments Act
- H.R. 15059 (94th): A bill to amend the Emergency Livestock Credit Act of 1974.
- H.R. 5750 (94th): A bill for the relief of Chu Wol Kim.
- H.R. 7862 (94th): A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 relating to credit eligibility for cooperatives serving agricultural producers, and to enlarge the access of production credit …
- H.R. 1589 (94th): An Act to suspend increases in the costs of coupons to food stamp recipients as a result of recent administrative actions.
- H.R. 2415 (94th): A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1964.
- H.R. 2081 (94th): A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1964.
Does 7 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
Bergland sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Agriculture and Food (46%) Social Welfare (14%) Housing and Community Development (11%) Native Americans (8%) Private Legislation (8%) Government Operations and Politics (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Bergland recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 15485 (94th): Sugar Supply Assurance Act
- H.R. 15059 (94th): A bill to amend the Emergency Livestock Credit Act of 1974.
- H.R. 14641 (94th): A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
- H.R. 14384 (94th): A bill to provide emergency assistance to livestock producers.
- H.R. 14153 (94th): A bill to amend the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to provide …
- H.R. 14179 (94th): A bill for the relief of Dae Sung Ra.
- H.R. 13806 (94th): A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1971 to Jan 1977, Bergland missed 172 of 3,003 roll call votes, which is 5.7%. This is better than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1977. 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
- 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
