Mazzoli was the representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1971 to 1994.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Mazzoli is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1994 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 Mazzoli sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Mazzoli was the primary sponsor of 12 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 783 (103rd): Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994
- H.R. 2128 (103rd): To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee assistance for fiscal years 1993 and 1994.
- H.R. 3049 (102nd): Miscellaneous and Technical Immigration and Naturalization Amendments of 1991
- H.R. 1452 (99th): Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1986
- H.J.Res. 655 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the month of October 1986 as “National Spina Bifida Month”.
- H.J.Res. 179 (99th): A joint resolution to designate the month of October 1985 as “National Spina Bifida Month”.
- H.R. 5164 (98th): Central Intelligence Agency Information Act
Does 12 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
Mazzoli sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Immigration (32%) Crime and Law Enforcement (17%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Families (10%) Law (7%) Labor and Employment (6%) Taxation (6%) Economics and Public Finance (4%)
Recent Bills
Some of Mazzoli’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Res. 533 (103rd): To provide for the concurrence of the House to the amendment of ...
- H.R. 4413 (103rd): To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make permanent the visa ...
- H.Res. 400 (103rd): Expressing the condolences of the House on the death of Representative William ...
- H.R. 4176 (103rd): To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee ...
- H.R. 3362 (103rd): Employer Sanctions Improvement Act of 1993
- H.R. 3363 (103rd): Immigration Enforcement and Asylum Reform Act of 1993
- H.R. 2602 (103rd): Immigration Enforcement and Asylum Reform Act of 1993
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1971 to Nov 1994, Mazzoli missed 505 of 12,321 roll call votes, which is 4.1%. This is on par with the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. 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
- 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
