Sam Steiger, former Representative for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District

Steiger was the representative for Arizona’s 3^rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1967 to 1976.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Steiger 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 liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Steiger sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Steiger was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

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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 about one third or more of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Steiger sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Native Americans (29%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (24%) Private Legislation (13%) Government Operations and Politics (7%) Water Resources Development (7%) Crime and Law Enforcement (7%) Labor and Employment (7%) Sports and Recreation (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1967 to Oct 1976, Steiger missed 790 of 3,921 roll call votes, which is 20.1%. This is much worse than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	5	6.3%	83^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	91	3	3.3%	43^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	3	12.0%	50^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	54^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	4	14.3%	63^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	4	8.9%	45^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	6	6.8%	27^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	5	14.3%	61^st
1970 Apr-Jun	74	8	10.8%	31^st
1970 Jul-Sep	76	1	1.3%	7^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	22	27.2%	71^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	32^nd
1971 Apr-Jun	90	13	14.4%	56^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	3	4.1%	28^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	11	8.2%	36^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	9	7.9%	33^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	49^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	32	64.0%	95^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	11	30.6%	93^rd
1973 Apr-Jun	191	35	18.3%	84^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	5	3.8%	40^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	25	13.7%	77^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	9	11.4%	64^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	10	5.9%	30^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	14	9.5%	71^st
1974 Oct-Dec	141	11	7.8%	42^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	38^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	37	18.6%	90^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	10	6.5%	52^nd
1975 Oct-Dec	191	21	11.0%	71^st
1976 Jan-Mar	106	40	37.7%	96^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	170	63.7%	97^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	242	86.1%	99^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	7	100.0%	91^st

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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Rep. Sam Steiger

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