Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Strickland sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 2006. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Strickland is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Strickland sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (19%) Health (16%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Law (11%) Families (10%) Social Welfare (10%) Commerce (9%)
Recent Bills
Some of Strickland’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6251 (109th): To provide for health care benefits for certain nuclear facility workers.
- H.R. 5844 (109th): Genuine American Flag Act
- H.R. 5515 (109th): Trade Readjustment Allowances for Adversely Affected Workers Act of 2006
- H.R. 4932 (109th): Call Center Consumer Right to Know Act of 2006
- H.R. 4498 (109th): To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize a case-by-case waiver ...
- H.R. 4385 (109th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that employees ...
- H.R. 4215 (109th): Wayne “Cotton” Morgan Bulletproof Vest Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1993 to Dec 2006, Strickland missed 364 of 6,954 roll call votes, which is 5.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills