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Mendel Jackson Davis

Representative from South Carolina
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1971–1981ID D000125
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LegislationHEADLINE
60%with Dems
of 1,915 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
60%with Dems
of 1,915 · both combined
Steepest move
+21 pts
1977 → 1979
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
1979–8096th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
75.5%with Democrats
of 335 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1977 → 1979, +21 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
Dec 10, 1980H.Res. 826No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 5, 1980H.R. 8105No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 5, 1980S. 1615No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (S. 1615), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans NayCounts toward scoreYes — the parties split.
Where this lands
YEASided with the Democratic majority
Dec 5, 1980S. 1615No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Dec 4, 1980H.Res. 802No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Dec 3, 1980H.R. 7020No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 3, 1980H.R. 8378No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Dec 3, 1980H.J.Res. 637No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Dec 3, 1980H.J.Res. 637No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 335 contested votes scored in the 96th CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
Economics and Public Finance55.9% · 376 votes
Congress64.6% · 206 votes
Government Operations and Politics66.7% · 138 votes
International Affairs37.3% · 126 votes
Energy58.4% · 125 votes
Transportation and Public Works72.5% · 51 votes
Labor and Employment78% · 50 votes
Armed Forces and National Security37.5% · 40 votes
Agriculture and Food73.7% · 38 votes
Taxation65.7% · 35 votes
Education78.1% · 32 votes
Foreign Trade and International Finance33.3% · 30 votes
Public Lands and Natural Resources83.3% · 30 votes
Law72% · 25 votes
Environmental Protection45.8% · 24 votes
Health83.3% · 24 votes
Commerce69.6% · 23 votes
Crime and Law Enforcement50% · 18 votes
Finance and Financial Sector56.3% · 16 votes
Social Welfare68.8% · 16 votes
District of Columbia86.7% · 15 votes
Mines and mineral resources21.4% · 14 votes
Housing and Community Development41.7% · 12 votes
Too few contested votes to score
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9 votes
Independent regulatory commissions— · 9 votes
Industrial relations— · 9 votes
Lobbying— · 9 votes
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9 votes
Science, Technology, Communications— · 8 votes
Depletion allowances— · 7 votes
Electronic surveillance— · 7 votes
Private Legislation— · 7 votes
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 6 votes
Black lung— · 6 votes
Mortgages— · 6 votes
Public works— · 6 votes
Commemorations— · 4 votes
Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes
Constitutional amendments— · 4 votes
Government securities— · 4 votes
Municipal finance— · 4 votes
Native Americans— · 4 votes
Political participation— · 4 votes
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues— · 3 votes
Coins and coinage— · 3 votes
Credit— · 3 votes
Embargo— · 3 votes
Families— · 3 votes
Financial disclosure— · 3 votes
Home repair and improvement— · 3 votes
Indian claims— · 3 votes
Petroleum industry— · 3 votes
Postal rates and revenues— · 3 votes
Revenue sharing— · 3 votes
Contested elections— · 2 votes
Cultural centers— · 2 votes
Executive reorganization— · 2 votes
Life insurance— · 2 votes
Monuments and memorials— · 2 votes
Museums— · 2 votes
Power resources— · 2 votes
Printing— · 2 votes
Real property— · 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
Conferences— · 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
Impeachments— · 1 vote
Income tax— · 1 vote
Intergovernmental relations— · 1 vote
International economic relations— · 1 vote
Lakes— · 1 vote
Livestock— · 1 vote
Motor vehicles— · 1 vote
Political representation— · 1 vote
Postal service— · 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 71 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, Clothing industry, Commodity control, Conservation of natural resources, Contempt of legislative bodies, Corporations, Customs administration, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emigration, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Government life insurance, Government property, Government publications, Human rights, Import restrictions, 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, Noise, Nuclear facilities, Nuclear weapons, Photovoltaic power systems, Political prisoners, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recall of officials, Recreation areas, Referendum, Rural conditions, Salaries, Social Sciences and History, 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

5 Congresses
92nd · 197196th · 1979
Democrat · House · SC92nd–96th
Term datesexact
Members · South Carolina
MD

Mendel Jackson Davis

Representative from South Carolina
HOUSED1971–19815 CONGRESSES
Compare
LegislationHEADLINE
59.9%with Democrats
of 1,915 votes · 40.1% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested60%of 1,915 · combined
Steepest move+21 pts1977→79, as a Democrat

Career arc

10050019711979
1979–80 · 96th · Democrat · of 335 votes75.5%

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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 majorityNay
Counts toward scoreYes
Open roll call
Latest 6 shown · 335 contested votes scored in the 96th

By policy area

career
Economics and Public Finance55.9% · 376
Congress64.6% · 206
Government Operations and Politics66.7% · 138
International Affairs37.3% · 126
Energy58.4% · 125
Transportation and Public Works72.5% · 51
Labor and Employment78% · 50
Armed Forces and National Security37.5% · 40
Agriculture and Food73.7% · 38
Taxation65.7% · 35
Education78.1% · 32
Foreign Trade and International Finance33.3% · 30
Public Lands and Natural Resources83.3% · 30
Law72% · 25
Environmental Protection45.8% · 24
Health83.3% · 24
Commerce69.6% · 23
Crime and Law Enforcement50% · 18
Finance and Financial Sector56.3% · 16
Social Welfare68.8% · 16
District of Columbia86.7% · 15
Mines and mineral resources21.4% · 14
Housing and Community Development41.7% · 12
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9
Independent regulatory commissions— · 9
Industrial relations— · 9
Lobbying— · 9
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9
Science, Technology, Communications— · 8
Depletion allowances— · 7
Electronic surveillance— · 7
Private Legislation— · 7
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 6
Black lung— · 6
Mortgages— · 6
Public works— · 6
Commemorations— · 4
Congressional-executive relations— · 4
Constitutional amendments— · 4
Government securities— · 4
Municipal finance— · 4
Native Americans— · 4
Political participation— · 4
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues— · 3
Coins and coinage— · 3
Credit— · 3
Embargo— · 3
Families— · 3
Financial disclosure— · 3
Home repair and improvement— · 3
Indian claims— · 3
Petroleum industry— · 3
Postal rates and revenues— · 3
Revenue sharing— · 3
Contested elections— · 2
Cultural centers— · 2
Executive reorganization— · 2
Life insurance— · 2
Monuments and memorials— · 2
Museums— · 2
Power resources— · 2
Printing— · 2
Real property— · 2
Territories (U.S.)— · 2
Water Resources Development— · 2
Youth— · 2
Animals— · 1
Aquaculture— · 1
Barber and beauty shops— · 1
Chemicals— · 1
Conferences— · 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
Impeachments— · 1
Income tax— · 1
Intergovernmental relations— · 1
International economic relations— · 1
Lakes— · 1
Livestock— · 1
Motor vehicles— · 1
Political representation— · 1
Postal service— · 1
Reclamation of land— · 1
Refugees— · 1
Rehabilitation— · 1
Right of privacy— · 1
Right to counsel— · 1
Rivers— · 1

Also voted in 71 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, Clothing industry, Commodity control, Conservation of natural resources, Contempt of legislative bodies, Corporations, Customs administration, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emigration, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Government life insurance, Government property, Government publications, Human rights, Import restrictions, 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, Noise, Nuclear facilities, Nuclear weapons, Photovoltaic power systems, Political prisoners, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recall of officials, Recreation areas, Referendum, Rural conditions, Salaries, Social Sciences and History, Solar energy, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Terrorism, Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Witnesses.

Service record

92nd · 197196th · 1979
Democrat92nd–96th

Party switchers

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