Roth was the representative for Wisconsin’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1979 to 1996.
![Photo of Rep. Toby Roth [R-WI8, 1979-1996]](/static/legislator-photos/409423-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Roth is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1996 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 Roth sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1991 to Oct 3, 1996. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Roth was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 2579 (104th): United States National Tourism Organization Act of 1996
- H.J.Res. 585 (101st): Designating October 3, 1990, as “National Teacher Appreciation Day”.
- H.J.Res. 438 (100th): A joint resolution designating October 7, 1988, as “National Teacher Appreciation Day”.
- H.R. 242 (100th): A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain public lands in Oconto and Marinette Counties, Wisconsin.
- H.R. 2694 (99th): A bill designating the United States Post Office Building located at 300 Packerland Drive, Green Bay, Wisconsin, as the “John W. Byrnes Post Office and Federal Building”.
Does 5 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
Roth sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (20%) International Affairs (15%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (14%) Commerce (12%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Labor and Employment (10%) Law (8%) Private Legislation (8%)
Recent Bills
Some of Roth’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4226 (104th): To require approval of an application for compensation for the injuries of ...
- H.R. 4109 (104th): Export Programs Extension Act of 1996
- H.R. 3759 (104th): Exports, Jobs, and Growth Act of 1996
- H.R. 3407 (104th): Thrift Charter Merger Commission Act of 1996
- H.Res. 335 (104th): To congratulate the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League on ...
- H.R. 2579 (104th): United States National Tourism Organization Act of 1996
- H.R. 2325 (104th): Department of Trade Establishment Act
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1979 to Sep 1996, Roth missed 468 of 9,121 roll call votes, which is 5.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
