Rep. Thomas Steed

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Steed is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1980 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 Steed sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 14, 1975 to Dec 13, 1980. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Steed was the primary sponsor of 14 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 3096 (96th): A bill for the relief of Raymond M. Gee.
• H.J.Res. 3 (96th): A joint resolution designating November 4, 1979, as “Will Rogers Day”.
• H.R. 4393 (96th): Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1980
• H.R. 12930 (95th): Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act
• H.R. 7674 (95th): A bill to designate the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center.
• H.R. 7552 (95th): Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation Act
• H.R. 6622 (94th): A bill to provide for repair of the Del City Aqueduct, a feature of the Norman Federal Reclamation Project, Okla.

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Does 14 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

Steed sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (32%) Native Americans (22%) Economics and Public Finance (15%) Private Legislation (10%) Labor and Employment (8%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%) Taxation (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Steed recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 8226 (96th): Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center Endowment Act
• H.R. 8185 (96th): A bill to remove certain lands from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, …
• H.R. 7583 (96th): Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1981
• H.R. 6717 (96th): A bill to provide for the use and distribution of Delaware Indian …
• H.R. 4393 (96th): Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1980
• H.R. 3096 (96th): A bill for the relief of Raymond M. Gee.
• H.R. 1144 (96th): A bill to provide for the distribution of certain funds appropriated to …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1949 to Dec 1980, Steed missed 792 of 8,727 roll call votes, which is 9.1%. This is on par with the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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.

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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