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Commemorations

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Commemorations. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Commemorations

Member0%50%100%With Dems · votes
DDavid Ross Obey100% · 34 votesDGary Leonard Ackerman100% · 31 votesDGeorge Miller100% · 31 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman100% · 30 votesDJames Louis Oberstar100% · 26 votesDEdward John Markey96.8% · 31 votesDHoward Lawrence Berman96.7% · 30 votesDLouise McIntosh Slaughter96.4% · 28 votesDNorman DeValois Dicks96.3% · 27 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.94.3% · 35 votesDPeter Visclosky93.5% · 31 votesDSander Martin Levin93.5% · 31 votesDDavid Eugene Price92.9% · 28 votesDBarney Frank92.3% · 26 votesDLane Allen Evans92.3% · 26 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.90.9% · 33 votesDFrederick C. Boucher90.3% · 31 votesDJohn Conyers Jr.90.3% · 31 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer90% · 30 votesDEdolphus Towns88.9% · 27 votesDMartin Olav Sabo88.5% · 26 votesDCharles B. Rangel85.7% · 28 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur82.1% · 28 votesDDale Edward Kildee77.4% · 31 votesDJohn McKee Spratt Jr.74.2% · 31 votesDBarton Jennings Gordon73.3% · 30 votesDAlan Bowlby Mollohan70% · 30 votesDNick Joe Rahall II67.7% · 31 votesDIsaac Newton (Ike) Skelton IV64.5% · 31 votesDPaul E. Kanjorski64.5% · 31 votesDSolomon P. Ortiz60.7% · 28 votesDJohn Patrick Murtha Jr.59.3% · 27 votesD→RRalph Moody Hall29% · 31 votesRThomas Evert Petri29% · 31 votesRDavid Timothy Dreier25.8% · 31 votesRNancy Lee Johnson23.1% · 26 votesRFrank Rudolph Wolf20% · 30 votesRChristopher Henry Smith19.4% · 31 votesRRalph Straus Regula14.3% · 35 votesRDonald Edwin Young11.8% · 34 votesRDuncan Lee Hunter10.7% · 28 votesRCharles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis10% · 30 votesRHenry John Hyde7.7% · 26 votesRHugh James Saxton6.9% · 29 votesREugene Clay Shaw Jr.3.8% · 26 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.3.2% · 31 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers3.2% · 31 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young2.9% · 35 votesRHoward Coble0% · 29 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton0% · 27 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Commemorations votes, of 1,509 who have cast one and 583 with enough to score. A further 144 voted in the area but never on a contested question. Blue bars sided with the Democratic majority more often than not; red bars with the Republican majority.

Where Commemorations breaks from the rest of the record

vs. all legislation
All legislationCommemorations
Paul E. Kanjorski−22.1 pts
Solomon P. Ortiz−20.3 pts
David Timothy Dreier+19.9 pts
John Patrick Murtha Jr.−19.3 pts

Paul E. Kanjorski sided with Democrats 22 points less often on Commemorations than on legislation overall. David Timothy Dreier went the other way by 20.

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Commemorations

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Commemorations. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Commemorations

MemberWith Dems · votes
DDavid Ross Obey100% · 34 votesDGary Leonard Ackerman100% · 31 votesDGeorge Miller100% · 31 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman100% · 30 votesDJames Louis Oberstar100% · 26 votesDEdward John Markey96.8% · 31 votesDHoward Lawrence Berman96.7% · 30 votesDLouise McIntosh Slaughter96.4% · 28 votesDNorman DeValois Dicks96.3% · 27 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.94.3% · 35 votesDPeter Visclosky93.5% · 31 votesDSander Martin Levin93.5% · 31 votesDDavid Eugene Price92.9% · 28 votesDBarney Frank92.3% · 26 votesDLane Allen Evans92.3% · 26 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.90.9% · 33 votesDFrederick C. Boucher90.3% · 31 votesDJohn Conyers Jr.90.3% · 31 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer90% · 30 votesDEdolphus Towns88.9% · 27 votesDMartin Olav Sabo88.5% · 26 votesDCharles B. Rangel85.7% · 28 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur82.1% · 28 votesDDale Edward Kildee77.4% · 31 votesDJohn McKee Spratt Jr.74.2% · 31 votesDBarton Jennings Gordon73.3% · 30 votesDAlan Bowlby Mollohan70% · 30 votesDNick Joe Rahall II67.7% · 31 votesDIsaac Newton (Ike) Skelton IV64.5% · 31 votesDPaul E. Kanjorski64.5% · 31 votesDSolomon P. Ortiz60.7% · 28 votesDJohn Patrick Murtha Jr.59.3% · 27 votesD→RRalph Moody Hall29% · 31 votesRThomas Evert Petri29% · 31 votesRDavid Timothy Dreier25.8% · 31 votesRNancy Lee Johnson23.1% · 26 votesRFrank Rudolph Wolf20% · 30 votesRChristopher Henry Smith19.4% · 31 votesRRalph Straus Regula14.3% · 35 votesRDonald Edwin Young11.8% · 34 votesRDuncan Lee Hunter10.7% · 28 votesRCharles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis10% · 30 votesRHenry John Hyde7.7% · 26 votesRHugh James Saxton6.9% · 29 votesREugene Clay Shaw Jr.3.8% · 26 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.3.2% · 31 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers3.2% · 31 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young2.9% · 35 votesRHoward Coble0% · 29 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton0% · 27 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Commemorations votes, of 1,509 who have cast one and 583 with enough to score. A further 144 voted in the area but never on a contested question. Blue bars sided with the Democratic majority more often than not; red bars with the Republican majority.

Where Commemorations breaks from the rest of the record

All legislationCommemorations
Paul E. Kanjorski−22.1 pts
Solomon P. Ortiz−20.3 pts
David Timothy Dreier+19.9 pts
John Patrick Murtha Jr.−19.3 pts

Paul E. Kanjorski sided with Democrats 22 points less often on Commemorations than on legislation overall. David Timothy Dreier went the other way by 20.

How areas work

1Each bill's area comes from the Library of Congress subject terms.
2Only contested votes count, as everywhere else.
3A member with too few votes in an area is listed with the count, not hidden — "too few to score" and "no contested votes" are different claims.
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