Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Moore 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 1986. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Moore is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Enacted Legislation
Moore was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
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 about one third or more of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Moore sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (19%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (19%) Social Welfare (19%) Health (11%) Economics and Public Finance (9%) Labor and Employment (9%) Education (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Moore’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5504 (99th): Soybean Production Program Improvement Act of 1986
- H.R. 5254 (99th): A bill to amend part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency ...
- H.R. 4667 (99th): A bill to amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 ...
- H.R. 4662 (99th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to impose ...
- H.R. 3575 (99th): A bill to amend chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, ...
- H.R. 3471 (99th): Superfund Revenue Reauthorization Act of 1985
- H.R. 3084 (99th): Medical Offer and Recovery Act
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1975 to Oct 1986, Moore missed 376 of 6,697 roll call votes, which is 5.6%. This is on par with the median of 6.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills
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