Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Gudger 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 1980. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Gudger is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Gudger sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (30%) Private Legislation (30%) Government Operations and Politics (20%) Crime and Law Enforcement (10%) Taxation (10%)
Recent Bills
Some of Gudger’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 8419 (96th): A bill for the relief of Swain County, North Carolina.
- H.J.Res. 528 (96th): A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United ...
- H.Res. 613 (96th): A resolution to refer the bill (H.R. 6803) entitled “A bill for ...
- H.R. 6803 (96th): A bill for the relief of the estate of Colonel Leslie A. ...
- H.R. 6091 (96th): Model Tourist Experience Center Act of 1979
- H.R. 5798 (96th): Forestry Tax Incentive Act of 1979
- H.R. 5694 (96th): A bill to amend the National Trails Systems Act, to authorize a ...
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1977 to Dec 1980, Gudger missed 152 of 2,816 roll call votes, which is 5.4%. This is better than the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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
- 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills