![Photo of Rep. Toby Roth [R-WI8, 1979-1996]](/data/photos/409423-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Roth sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1996. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Roth is shown as a purple triangle. (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”.
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 about one third or more 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%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Commerce (12%) Labor and Employment (10%) Private Legislation (8%) Law (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.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills