Rep. Robert “Robin” Tallon
Former Representative for South Carolina’s 6th District
Tallon was the representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1983 to 1992.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Tallon 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 Tallon sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Tallon was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 2156 (102nd): For the relief of William A. Proffitt.
- H.J.Res. 103 (102nd): Designating the second week in May 1991 as “National Tourism Week”.
Does 2 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
Tallon sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (24%) Social Welfare (17%) Taxation (14%) Private Legislation (10%) Agriculture and Food (10%) Commerce (10%) Government Operations and Politics (7%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Tallon recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5024 (102nd): Commission on the Airplane Crash at Gander, Newfoundland, Act
- H.R. 4180 (102nd): To recognize the organization known as “Wildlife Action, Inc.”.
- H.J.Res. 392 (102nd): Designating February 1-7, 1992, as “Travel Agent Appreciation Week”.
- H.R. 4046 (102nd): To provide for a joint report by the Secretary of Health and …
- H.R. 2339 (102nd): To suspend until January 1, 1995, the duties on Chromotropic Acid and …
- H.R. 2340 (102nd): To repeal the restrictions added by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 …
- H.R. 2156 (102nd): For the relief of William A. Proffitt.
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1983 to Oct 1992, Tallon missed 250 of 4,571 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. 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
