Gammage was the representative for Texas’s 22nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1977 to 1978.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Gammage sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Education (43%) Social Welfare (29%) Taxation (29%)
Recent Bills
Some of Gammage’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 12712 (95th): A bill for the relief of Roger Hoss, Jo Ann Hoss and …
- H.J.Res. 835 (95th): Joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation …
- H.J.Res. 810 (95th): A resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation …
- H.R. 11218 (95th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, title 26 …
- H.J.Res. 768 (95th): A resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation …
- H.R. 10763 (95th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, Title 26 …
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1977 to Oct 1978, Gammage missed 304 of 1,540 roll call votes, which is 19.7%. This is much worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
