Rep. Walter Powell

Former Representative for Ohio’s 8^th District

Powell was the representative for Ohio’s 8^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1974.

He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 24^th congressional district as a Republican from 1971 to 1972.

Bioguide

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Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Powell sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (50%) Education (50%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Powell recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1971 to Dec 1974, Powell missed 263 of 1,727 roll call votes, which is 15.2%. This is worse than the median of 9.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	50^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	4	4.4%	13^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	8	10.8%	58^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	31	23.1%	82^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	21	32.8%	94^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	4	3.5%	16^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	27^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	6	12.0%	43^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	22^nd
1973 Apr-Jun	191	27	14.1%	72^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	131	3	2.3%	27^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	17	9.3%	56^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	14	17.7%	81^st
1974 Apr-Jun	170	17	10.0%	47^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	33	22.3%	88^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	70	49.6%	95^th

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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills