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Goodloe Edgar Byron

Representative from Maryland
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1971–1979ID B001221
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LegislationHEADLINE
35%with Dems
of 1,638 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
35%with Dems
of 1,638 · both combined
Steepest move
+8 pts
1975 → 1977
still a Democrat

Career arc

Legislation leads. Each point is one Congress: how often they sided with the Democratic majority on contested bills, resolutions and amendments.

100%75%50%25%0%sides with Democrats ↑sides with Republicans ↓19711977
1977–7895th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
39.7%with Democrats
of 529 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1975 → 1977, +8 pts — while still a Democrat.
Sat as a DemocratSat as a RepublicanVotes available below

Votes

9 of these 9 roll calls have no description. About 25% of roll calls since 1989 are blank in the source too. Some also lack a bill number.

DateBillVoteTypeCastSided with
Oct 6, 1978H.R. 11545No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Oct 6, 1978H.R. 13750No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Oct 6, 1978H.R. 13750No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 13750), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreNo — both party majorities voted Yea.
Where this lands
YEAVoted with both majorities — not scored
Oct 6, 1978S. 2640No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Oct 6, 1978H.Res. 1404No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Oct 5, 1978H.R. 13471No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Oct 5, 1978H.R. 13471No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Oct 5, 1978H.R. 13471No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Oct 5, 1978H.R. 12932No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 529 contested votes scored in the 95th CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
Economics and Public Finance29% · 286 votes
Congress55% · 149 votes
Energy31.1% · 106 votes
Government Operations and Politics38.4% · 99 votes
International Affairs8.9% · 90 votes
Transportation and Public Works58.5% · 41 votes
Labor and Employment30% · 40 votes
Armed Forces and National Security25.6% · 39 votes
Public Lands and Natural Resources84.4% · 32 votes
Agriculture and Food20% · 30 votes
Taxation30% · 30 votes
Law7.1% · 28 votes
Environmental Protection33.3% · 24 votes
Commerce20% · 20 votes
Foreign Trade and International Finance31.6% · 19 votes
Education23.5% · 17 votes
Crime and Law Enforcement26.7% · 15 votes
District of Columbia33.3% · 15 votes
Finance and Financial Sector33.3% · 15 votes
Health35.7% · 14 votes
Industrial relations28.6% · 14 votes
Mines and mineral resources69.2% · 13 votes
Social Welfare46.2% · 13 votes
Housing and Community Development30% · 10 votes
Too few contested votes to score
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9 votes
Independent regulatory commissions— · 9 votes
Lobbying— · 8 votes
Science, Technology, Communications— · 8 votes
Depletion allowances— · 7 votes
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 6 votes
Black lung— · 6 votes
Mortgages— · 6 votes
Public works— · 6 votes
Vietnamese Conflict— · 6 votes
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues— · 4 votes
Commemorations— · 4 votes
Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes
Constitutional amendments— · 4 votes
Home repair and improvement— · 4 votes
Income tax— · 4 votes
Municipal finance— · 4 votes
Political participation— · 4 votes
Private Legislation— · 4 votes
Coins and coinage— · 3 votes
Credit— · 3 votes
Embargo— · 3 votes
Government securities— · 3 votes
International economic relations— · 3 votes
Petroleum industry— · 3 votes
Postal rates and revenues— · 3 votes
Revenue sharing— · 3 votes
Conferences— · 2 votes
Contested elections— · 2 votes
Electronic surveillance— · 2 votes
Executive reorganization— · 2 votes
Financial disclosure— · 2 votes
Life insurance— · 2 votes
Monuments and memorials— · 2 votes
Museums— · 2 votes
Power resources— · 2 votes
Printing— · 2 votes
Territories (U.S.)— · 2 votes
Water Resources Development— · 2 votes
Youth— · 2 votes
Animals— · 1 vote
Aquaculture— · 1 vote
Barber and beauty shops— · 1 vote
Chemicals— · 1 vote
Congressional oversight— · 1 vote
Day care— · 1 vote
Disabled— · 1 vote
Domestic relations— · 1 vote
Droughts— · 1 vote
Earthquakes— · 1 vote
Emergency Management— · 1 vote
Gold— · 1 vote
Government corporations— · 1 vote
Heating— · 1 vote
Immigration— · 1 vote
Import restrictions— · 1 vote
Indian claims— · 1 vote
Intergovernmental relations— · 1 vote
Lakes— · 1 vote
Livestock— · 1 vote
Motor vehicles— · 1 vote
Native Americans— · 1 vote
Noise— · 1 vote
Political representation— · 1 vote
Postal service— · 1 vote
Real property— · 1 vote
Reclamation of land— · 1 vote
Refugees— · 1 vote
Rehabilitation— · 1 vote
Right of privacy— · 1 vote
Right to counsel— · 1 vote
Rivers— · 1 vote

They also voted in 70 areas where the parties never split, so there is nothing to score — never on a contested question: Age and employment, Agriculture in foreign trade, American Revolution Bicentennial, Auditing, Aviation insurance, Awards, medals, prizes, Broadcasting, Cemeteries and funerals, Checks, Child abuse, Child welfare, Citizenship, Clergy, Climate, Commodity control, Conservation of natural resources, Contempt of legislative bodies, Corporations, Cultural centers, Customs administration, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emigration, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Government life insurance, Government property, Government publications, Human rights, Impeachments, Insect control, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, International agencies, Leases, Libraries, Lotteries, Marine mammal protection, Marine resources conservation, Minorities, Municipal budgets, Municipal home rule, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Nuclear facilities, Nuclear weapons, Photovoltaic power systems, Political prisoners, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recall of officials, Recreation areas, Referendum, Rural conditions, Salaries, Solar energy, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Terrorism, Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Witnesses.

Blue is the share of votes siding with the Democratic majority; the tick marks 50%.

Service record

4 Congresses
92nd · 197195th · 1977
Democrat · House · MD92nd–95th
Term datesexact
Members · Maryland
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Goodloe Edgar Byron

Representative from Maryland
HOUSED1971–19794 CONGRESSES
Compare
LegislationHEADLINE
34.9%with Democrats
of 1,638 votes · 65.1% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested35%of 1,638 · combined
Steepest move+8 pts1975→77, as a Democrat

Career arc

10050019711977
1977–78 · 95th · Democrat · of 529 votes39.7%

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Votes

About 25% of roll calls since 1989 are blank too. These rows carry a date, a bill number where one exists, how they voted and which side that matched.
Democratic majorityYea
Republican majorityYea
Counts toward scoreNo
Open roll call
Latest 6 shown · 529 contested votes scored in the 95th

By policy area

career
Economics and Public Finance29% · 286
Congress55% · 149
Energy31.1% · 106
Government Operations and Politics38.4% · 99
International Affairs8.9% · 90
Transportation and Public Works58.5% · 41
Labor and Employment30% · 40
Armed Forces and National Security25.6% · 39
Public Lands and Natural Resources84.4% · 32
Agriculture and Food20% · 30
Taxation30% · 30
Law7.1% · 28
Environmental Protection33.3% · 24
Commerce20% · 20
Foreign Trade and International Finance31.6% · 19
Education23.5% · 17
Crime and Law Enforcement26.7% · 15
District of Columbia33.3% · 15
Finance and Financial Sector33.3% · 15
Health35.7% · 14
Industrial relations28.6% · 14
Mines and mineral resources69.2% · 13
Social Welfare46.2% · 13
Housing and Community Development30% · 10
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9
Independent regulatory commissions— · 9
Lobbying— · 8
Science, Technology, Communications— · 8
Depletion allowances— · 7
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 6
Black lung— · 6
Mortgages— · 6
Public works— · 6
Vietnamese Conflict— · 6
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues— · 4
Commemorations— · 4
Congressional-executive relations— · 4
Constitutional amendments— · 4
Home repair and improvement— · 4
Income tax— · 4
Municipal finance— · 4
Political participation— · 4
Private Legislation— · 4
Coins and coinage— · 3
Credit— · 3
Embargo— · 3
Government securities— · 3
International economic relations— · 3
Petroleum industry— · 3
Postal rates and revenues— · 3
Revenue sharing— · 3
Conferences— · 2
Contested elections— · 2
Electronic surveillance— · 2
Executive reorganization— · 2
Financial disclosure— · 2
Life insurance— · 2
Monuments and memorials— · 2
Museums— · 2
Power resources— · 2
Printing— · 2
Territories (U.S.)— · 2
Water Resources Development— · 2
Youth— · 2
Animals— · 1
Aquaculture— · 1
Barber and beauty shops— · 1
Chemicals— · 1
Congressional oversight— · 1
Day care— · 1
Disabled— · 1
Domestic relations— · 1
Droughts— · 1
Earthquakes— · 1
Emergency Management— · 1
Gold— · 1
Government corporations— · 1
Heating— · 1
Immigration— · 1
Import restrictions— · 1
Indian claims— · 1
Intergovernmental relations— · 1
Lakes— · 1
Livestock— · 1
Motor vehicles— · 1
Native Americans— · 1
Noise— · 1
Political representation— · 1
Postal service— · 1
Real property— · 1
Reclamation of land— · 1
Refugees— · 1
Rehabilitation— · 1
Right of privacy— · 1
Right to counsel— · 1
Rivers— · 1

Also voted in 70 areas where the parties never split — never on a contested question: Age and employment, Agriculture in foreign trade, American Revolution Bicentennial, Auditing, Aviation insurance, Awards, medals, prizes, Broadcasting, Cemeteries and funerals, Checks, Child abuse, Child welfare, Citizenship, Clergy, Climate, Commodity control, Conservation of natural resources, Contempt of legislative bodies, Corporations, Cultural centers, Customs administration, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emigration, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Government life insurance, Government property, Government publications, Human rights, Impeachments, Insect control, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, International agencies, Leases, Libraries, Lotteries, Marine mammal protection, Marine resources conservation, Minorities, Municipal budgets, Municipal home rule, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Nuclear facilities, Nuclear weapons, Photovoltaic power systems, Political prisoners, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recall of officials, Recreation areas, Referendum, Rural conditions, Salaries, Solar energy, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Terrorism, Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Witnesses.

Service record

92nd · 197195th · 1977
Democrat92nd–95th

Party switchers

John Alexander LoganD→R · IL · 40thWesley Wade WatkinsD→R · OK · 105thBen Nighthorse CampbellD→R · CO · 104th
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