Rep. Shirley Pettis

Former Representative for California’s 37^th District

Pettis was the representative for California’s 37^th congressional district and was a Republican. She served from 1975 to 1978.

Bioguide

Photo of Rep. Shirley Pettis [R-CA37, 1975-1978]

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Enacted Legislation

Pettis was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

H.R. 7101 (95th): An Act to amend certain provisions of law relating to land claims by the United States in Riverside County, California, based upon the accretion or avulsion, and …

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Does 1 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Pettis sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Social Welfare (18%) Private Legislation (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Labor and Employment (14%) Energy (11%) Native Americans (11%) Transportation and Public Works (11%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Pettis recently introduced the following legislation:

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From May 1975 to Oct 1978, Pettis missed 372 of 2,686 roll call votes, which is 13.8%. This is 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, major life events, and running for higher office.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Apr-Jun	140	8	5.7%	50^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	7	3.7%	36^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	27	25.5%	95^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	27	10.1%	54^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	5	1.8%	16^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	45	45.0%	98^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	22	8.1%	52^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	33	16.7%	84^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	5	3.7%	28^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	16	10.7%	62^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	39	13.0%	65^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	62	20.1%	82^nd
1978 Oct-Oct	76	76	100.0%	99^th

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills