Thomas Barrett, former Representative for Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District

Barrett was the representative for Wisconsin’s 5^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1993 to 2002.

Photo of Rep. Thomas Barrett [D-WI5, 1993-2002]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Barrett is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2002 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 Barrett sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Barrett was the primary sponsor of 2 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 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

Barrett sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (18%) Social Welfare (12%) Commerce (12%) Science, Technology, Communications (12%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Health (12%) Housing and Community Development (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (11%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1993 to Nov 2002, Barrett missed 103 of 5,859 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is better than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1993 Jan-Mar	127	2	1.6%	39^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	1	1.1%	21^st
1994 Apr-Jun	219	9	4.1%	73^rd
1994 Jul-Sep	142	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	49^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	5	2.2%	58^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	1	0.5%	21^st
1996 Jan-Mar	110	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	4	2.5%	57^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	2	2.8%	58^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	3	1.7%	47^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	4	2.0%	51^st
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	3	3.9%	69^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	1	0.5%	16^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	5	1.8%	39^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	6	5.9%	44^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	1	0.7%	21^st
2001 Jul-Sep	149	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	12	15.2%	94^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	43	30.5%	98^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	0	0.0%	0^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
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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Rep. Thomas Barrett

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