Bailey was the representative for Missouri’s 8th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1981 to 1982.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Bailey sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Emergency Management (100%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Bailey recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 6186 (97th): A bill to authorize appropriations for the construction and for rehabilitation of …
- H.R. 4170 (97th): A bill to terminate authorization of the Meramec Park Lake portion of …
- H.R. 4171 (97th): A bill to terminate the authorization of the Union Lake flood control …
- H.R. 3773 (97th): A bill to amend title II, United States Code, to permit certain …
- H.R. 3401 (97th): Federal Assistance Reform Act of 1981
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1981 to Dec 1982, Bailey missed 49 of 812 roll call votes, which is 6.0%. This is on par with the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. 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.
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
