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Families

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

Members on Families

Member0%50%100%With Dems · votes
DRichard Edmund Neal100% · 27 votesDPeter Anthony DeFazio100% · 25 votesDEdward John Markey100% · 23 votesDMaxine Waters100% · 23 votesDDavid Eugene Price100% · 22 votesDCharles B. Rangel100% · 21 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.100% · 21 votesDGeorge Miller100% · 21 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman100% · 21 votesDJames Enos Clyburn100% · 21 votesDJerrold Lewis Nadler100% · 21 votesDJohn Conyers Jr.100% · 21 votesDNydia M. Velázquez100% · 21 votesDRobert C. Scott100% · 21 votesDEliot Lance Engel100% · 20 votesDJosé E. Serrano100% · 20 votesDNancy Pelosi100% · 20 votesDNita M. Lowey100% · 20 votesDZoe Lofgren100% · 20 votesDRosa L. DeLauro95.7% · 23 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.95.5% · 22 votesDLloyd Alton Doggett II95.2% · 21 votesDNorman DeValois Dicks95.2% · 21 votesDMartin Olav Sabo95% · 20 votesDDavid Ross Obey90.9% · 22 votesDJames Louis Oberstar90.5% · 21 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer90% · 30 votesDFrank Pallone Jr.89.3% · 28 votesDDale Edward Kildee86.4% · 22 votesDJohn Patrick Murtha Jr.81% · 21 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur80% · 30 votesDAlan Bowlby Mollohan78.9% · 19 votesDNick Joe Rahall II77.3% · 22 votesDPeter Visclosky71.4% · 21 votesDSanford Dixon Bishop Jr.71.4% · 21 votesRJames Albert Smith Leach50% · 20 votesDIsaac Newton (Ike) Skelton IV36.4% · 22 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton36% · 25 votesRChristopher Henry Smith30% · 30 votesRThomas Evert Petri27.3% · 22 votesRDonald Edwin Young25.9% · 27 votesRRalph Straus Regula23.8% · 21 votesRCharles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis20% · 20 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young20% · 20 votesRWilliam Marshall Thomas20% · 20 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers16.7% · 30 votesRHenry John Hyde15% · 20 votesRKen Calvert14.3% · 21 votesRFrank D. Lucas9.5% · 21 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.0% · 25 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Families votes, of 2,011 who have cast one and 686 with enough to score. A further 348 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 Families breaks from the rest of the record

vs. all legislation
All legislationFamilies
Frederick Stephen Upton+21.2 pts
Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur−12.6 pts
Donald Edwin Young+9.9 pts
Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr.−7.4 pts

Frederick Stephen Upton sided with Democrats 21 points more often on Families than on legislation overall. Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur went the other way by 13.

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Families

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

Members on Families

MemberWith Dems · votes
DRichard Edmund Neal100% · 27 votesDPeter Anthony DeFazio100% · 25 votesDEdward John Markey100% · 23 votesDMaxine Waters100% · 23 votesDDavid Eugene Price100% · 22 votesDCharles B. Rangel100% · 21 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.100% · 21 votesDGeorge Miller100% · 21 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman100% · 21 votesDJames Enos Clyburn100% · 21 votesDJerrold Lewis Nadler100% · 21 votesDJohn Conyers Jr.100% · 21 votesDNydia M. Velázquez100% · 21 votesDRobert C. Scott100% · 21 votesDEliot Lance Engel100% · 20 votesDJosé E. Serrano100% · 20 votesDNancy Pelosi100% · 20 votesDNita M. Lowey100% · 20 votesDZoe Lofgren100% · 20 votesDRosa L. DeLauro95.7% · 23 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.95.5% · 22 votesDLloyd Alton Doggett II95.2% · 21 votesDNorman DeValois Dicks95.2% · 21 votesDMartin Olav Sabo95% · 20 votesDDavid Ross Obey90.9% · 22 votesDJames Louis Oberstar90.5% · 21 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer90% · 30 votesDFrank Pallone Jr.89.3% · 28 votesDDale Edward Kildee86.4% · 22 votesDJohn Patrick Murtha Jr.81% · 21 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur80% · 30 votesDAlan Bowlby Mollohan78.9% · 19 votesDNick Joe Rahall II77.3% · 22 votesDPeter Visclosky71.4% · 21 votesDSanford Dixon Bishop Jr.71.4% · 21 votesRJames Albert Smith Leach50% · 20 votesDIsaac Newton (Ike) Skelton IV36.4% · 22 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton36% · 25 votesRChristopher Henry Smith30% · 30 votesRThomas Evert Petri27.3% · 22 votesRDonald Edwin Young25.9% · 27 votesRRalph Straus Regula23.8% · 21 votesRCharles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis20% · 20 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young20% · 20 votesRWilliam Marshall Thomas20% · 20 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers16.7% · 30 votesRHenry John Hyde15% · 20 votesRKen Calvert14.3% · 21 votesRFrank D. Lucas9.5% · 21 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.0% · 25 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Families votes, of 2,011 who have cast one and 686 with enough to score. A further 348 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 Families breaks from the rest of the record

All legislationFamilies
Frederick Stephen Upton+21.2 pts
Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur−12.6 pts
Donald Edwin Young+9.9 pts
Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr.−7.4 pts

Frederick Stephen Upton sided with Democrats 21 points more often on Families than on legislation overall. Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur went the other way by 13.

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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