Keating was the representative for Ohio’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1971 to 1974.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Keating is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1974 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 Keating sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Dec 20, 1974. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Keating sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Transportation and Public Works (19%) Government Operations and Politics (19%) Armed Forces and National Security (17%) Crime and Law Enforcement (17%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Labor and Employment (6%) Environmental Protection (6%) Health (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Keating recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 12078 (93rd): A bill to improve the law in the District of Columbia with …
- H.R. 11146 (93rd): Correctional Systems Improvement Act
- H.R. 10930 (93rd): A bill to repeal the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970.
- H.R. 10635 (93rd): Independent Oil Marketers Supply Act
- H.R. 10638 (93rd): Natural Gas Supply Act
- H.R. 10637 (93rd): Deepwater Port Facilities Act
- H.R. 10636 (93rd): Mineral Leasing Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1971 to Dec 1974, Keating missed 152 of 1,190 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. 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.
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
