William Boner, former Representative for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Boner 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 1988. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Boner is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Boner sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Social Welfare (30%) Taxation (18%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Families (9%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (9%) Education (6%) Science, Technology, Communications (6%) Immigration (6%)

Recent Bills

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1979 to Oct 1987, Boner missed 555 of 4,211 roll call votes, which is 13.2%. This is much worse than the median of 5.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1987. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	2	0.9%	7^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	11	5.6%	48^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	6	3.2%	17^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	15	10.1%	59^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	16	8.1%	50^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	6	3.1%	26^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	48^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	73^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	90	8	8.9%	64^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	6	5.7%	55^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	35^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	6	12.5%	67^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	13	10.9%	79^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	26	13.5%	82^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	57^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	10	23.3%	93^rd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	35^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	20	15.4%	94^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	16	11.2%	78^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	8	15.1%	79^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	30	13.5%	83^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	96	21	21.9%	94^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	17	47.2%	98^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	36^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	3	3.0%	38^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	14	9.5%	81^st
1986 Jan-Mar	61	1	1.6%	18^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	11	8.6%	82^nd
1986 Jul-Sep	202	54	26.7%	98^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	4	6.7%	62^nd
1987 Jan-Mar	39	10	25.6%	95^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	97	51.9%	98^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	84	88.4%	100^th
1987 Oct-Dec	6	6	100.0%	99^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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