Robert Eckhardt, former Representative for Texas's 8th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Eckhardt 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 1980. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Eckhardt is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Eckhardt sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (22%) Economics and Public Finance (15%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Commerce (12%) Environmental Protection (10%) Energy (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Transportation and Public Works (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Eckhardt’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1967 to Dec 1980, Eckhardt missed 919 of 6,732 roll call votes, which is 13.7%. This is much worse than the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	51^st
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	2	2.0%	41^st
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	50^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	9	9.9%	81^st
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	75^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	3	10.7%	53^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	2	4.4%	25^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	22	25.0%	87^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	8	22.9%	81^st
1970 Apr-Jun	74	12	16.2%	46^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	4	5.3%	23^rd
1970 Oct-Dec	81	11	13.6%	42^nd
1971 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	54^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	13	14.4%	58^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	8	10.8%	58^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	36	26.9%	86^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	13	20.3%	83^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	29	25.4%	82^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	16	15.8%	71^st
1972 Oct-Oct	50	2	4.0%	20^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	61^st
1973 Apr-Jun	191	11	5.8%	32^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	131	5	3.8%	39^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	2	1.1%	12^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	11	13.9%	72^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	170	24	14.1%	69^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	23	15.5%	88^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	12	8.5%	45^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	28^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	13	6.5%	53^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	7	4.5%	41^st
1975 Oct-Dec	191	18	9.4%	72^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	20	18.9%	89^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	55	20.6%	86^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	56	19.9%	90^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	29	29.0%	97^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	61	22.3%	94^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	28	14.1%	82^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	135	14	10.4%	66^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	24	16.0%	81^st
1978 Apr-Jun	300	77	25.7%	92^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	55	17.9%	86^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	6	7.9%	61^st
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	48	21.7%	90^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	13	6.6%	49^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	16	8.4%	42^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	31	20.9%	83^rd
1980 Apr-Jun	197	31	15.7%	78^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	17	8.9%	52^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	10	14.9%	57^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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