Rep. Toby Roth
Former Representative from Wisconsin's 8th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title / State / District |
|---|---|
| Representative, Wisconsin's 8th District |
See Also: Bioguide
Sponsorship Analysis
Roth was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Roth’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Roth’s bills had a total of 406 cosponsors in the 104th Congress.
Use this chart to compare Roth to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104th Congress on leadership and ideology.
This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
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
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Voting Record
From Jan 1979 to Sep 1996, Roth missed 450 of 9,098 roll call votes, which is 4.9%. 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.
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
- 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
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills