Casey was the representative for Texas’s 22nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1959 to 1976.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Casey is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1976 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 Casey sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 1, 1976. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Casey was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 6950 (94th): Legislative Branch Appropriation Act
- H.R. 14012 (93rd): Legislative Branch Appropriation Act
- H.R. 6691 (93rd): Legislative Branch Appropriation Act
- H.J.Res. 437 (93rd): Joint resolution to authorize the President to designate the period beginning April 15, 1973, as “National Clean Water Week”.
Does 4 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
Casey sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (31%) Environmental Protection (19%) Housing and Community Development (19%) Education (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Families (4%) Health (4%) Social Welfare (4%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Casey recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 9202 (94th): A bill to amend title 4 of the United States Code to …
- H.R. 8904 (94th): A bill to amend title 4 of the United States Code to …
- H.R. 7528 (94th): A bill to provide for the regulation of the content of shot …
- H.R. 6958 (94th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow …
- H.R. 6957 (94th): A bill to amend the authorization for the project for hurricane-flood protection …
- H.R. 6956 (94th): A bill to amend the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to …
- H.R. 6950 (94th): Legislative Branch Appropriation Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1959 to Jan 1976, Casey missed 288 of 4,317 roll call votes, which is 6.7%. This is on par with the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1976. 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
