![Photo of Rep. William Paxon [R-NY27, 1993-1998]](/static/legislator-photos/408553-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Paxon is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1998 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 Paxon sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 5, 1993 to Dec 17, 1998. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Paxon was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 2018 (105th): To waive temporarily the Medicaid enrollment composition rule for the Better Health Plan of Amherst, New York.
- H.R. 2333 (101st): Genesee River Protection Act of 1989
Does 2 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Paxon sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (17%) Health (17%) Law (17%) Social Welfare (17%) Environmental Protection (10%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Taxation (7%) Families (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Paxon recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 3157 (105th): Teachers in the Classroom Act
- H.Res. 268 (105th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that no new energy …
- H.R. 2483 (105th): To terminate the taxes imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 …
- H.R. 2018 (105th): To waive temporarily the Medicaid enrollment composition rule for the Better Health …
- H.R. 1610 (105th): To waive temporarily the Medicaid enrollment composition rule for certain health maintenance …
- H.R. 1192 (105th): Medicaid and TANF Waiver Fairness Act of 1997
- H.R. 1027 (105th): To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a 3-judge …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1989 to Dec 1998, Paxon missed 140 of 5,485 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. This is on par with the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1998. 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
- 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
