Rep. William Goodling

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Goodling is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2000 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Goodling sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1995 to Dec 15, 2000. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Goodling was the primary sponsor of 14 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 5210 (106th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 South George Street in York, Pennsylvania, as the “George Atlee Goodling Post Office Building”.
• H.R. 4542 (106th): To designate the Washington Opera in Washington, D.C., as the National Opera.
• H.R. 5 (105th): Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997
• H.R. 2066 (104th): Healthy Meals for Children Act
• H.R. 1715 (104th): Respecting the relationship between workers’ compensation benefits and the benefits available under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.
• H.R. 5759 (101st): To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to clarify the application of such Act to employee group health plans.
• H.R. 3248 (101st): To revise the boundary of Gettysburg National Military Park in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.

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Does 14 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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 at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Goodling sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (18%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Labor and Employment (14%) Education (13%) Law (13%) Social Welfare (10%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Families (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Goodling recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 5210 (106th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at …
• H.R. 5211 (106th): To allow taxpayers to include compensation payments received pursuant to the Declaration …
• H.Con.Res. 399 (106th): Recognizing the 25th anniversary of the enactment of the Education for All …
• H.R. 4766 (106th): Classroom Modernization Act of 2000
• H.R. 4542 (106th): To designate the Washington Opera in Washington, D.C., as the National Opera.
• H.R. 4520 (106th): Child and Adult Care Food Program Integrity Act of 2000
• H.R. 4499 (106th): Family and Medical Leave Clarification Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1975 to Dec 2000, Goodling missed 910 of 14,335 roll call votes, which is 6.3%. This is much worse than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2000. 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.

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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
• 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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills