Huckaby was the representative for Louisiana’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1977 to 1992.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Huckaby is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Huckaby sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Huckaby was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 5763 (102nd): To provide equitable relief to producers of sugarcane subject to proportionate shares.
- H.R. 775 (100th): Poverty Point National Monument Act
- H.R. 4556 (100th): A bill to amend the provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949 relating to certain cross compliance requirements under the extra long staple cotton program.
- H.R. 2971 (100th): Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act of 1987
- H.R. 3385 (98th): Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983
- H.R. 6022 (96th): A bill to establish the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge.
- H.R. 3662 (95th): A bill granting the consent of Congress to the Mississippi-Louisiana bridge construction compact.
Does 7 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
Huckaby sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Agriculture and Food (40%) Environmental Protection (17%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Native Americans (10%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%) Government Operations and Politics (7%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Huckaby recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5852 (102nd): To establish a 20 percent maximum broken kernel content limit for P.L. …
- H.R. 5764 (102nd): To amend the United States Warehouse Act to provide for the use …
- H.R. 5763 (102nd): To provide equitable relief to producers of sugarcane subject to proportionate shares.
- H.R. 5719 (102nd): To designate the lock numbered 5 on the Red River Waterway in …
- H.J.Res. 526 (102nd): Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for …
- H.R. 4258 (102nd): State Regulation and Management of Solid Waste Act of 1991
- H.R. 4257 (102nd): Farmers Home Administration Improvement Act of 1992
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1977 to Oct 1992, Huckaby missed 832 of 8,199 roll call votes, which is 10.1%. This is much worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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.
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
