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Harold Daniel Donohue

Representative from Massachusetts
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1947–1975ID D000419
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LegislationHEADLINE
88%with Dems
of 1,807 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
88%with Dems
of 1,807 · both combined
Steepest move
+25 pts
1955 → 1957
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 ↓19471953195919651971
1973–7493rd Congress
Sat as a Democrat
88.2%with Democrats
of 356 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1955 → 1957, +25 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 20, 1974H.R. 6668No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 20, 1974H.R. 421No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 20, 1974H.R. 10710No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 10710), 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
Dec 19, 1974H.Res. 1494No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 19, 1974H.Res. 1520No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 19, 1974H.Res. 1511No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 19, 1974S. 3976No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 18, 1974S. 2439No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Dec 18, 1974H.R. 15977No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
9 most recent roll calls shown · 356 contested votes scored in the 93rd CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
Economics and Public Finance88.4% · 69 votes
Congress83.7% · 49 votes
Energy87.9% · 33 votes
Labor and Employment90.5% · 21 votes
International Affairs56.3% · 16 votes
Transportation and Public Works100% · 14 votes
Government Operations and Politics92.3% · 13 votes
Armed Forces and National Security83.3% · 12 votes
District of Columbia100% · 12 votes
Law100% · 11 votes
Too few contested votes to score
Mines and mineral resources— · 7 votes
Commerce— · 6 votes
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 6 votes
Crime and Law Enforcement— · 5 votes
Education— · 5 votes
Environmental Protection— · 5 votes
Health— · 5 votes
Housing and Community Development— · 5 votes
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 4 votes
Commemorations— · 4 votes
Agriculture and Food— · 3 votes
Congressional-executive relations— · 3 votes
Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 3 votes
Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 3 votes
Vietnamese Conflict— · 3 votes
Coins and coinage— · 2 votes
Petroleum industry— · 2 votes
Public works— · 2 votes
Real property— · 2 votes
Immigration— · 1 vote
Livestock— · 1 vote
Monuments and memorials— · 1 vote
Private Legislation— · 1 vote
Right of privacy— · 1 vote
Science, Technology, Communications— · 1 vote
Social Welfare— · 1 vote

They also voted in 26 areas where the parties never split, so there is nothing to score — never on a contested question: American Revolution Bicentennial, Animals, Child welfare, Credit, Disabled, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emergency Management, Executive reorganization, Finance and Financial Sector, Gold, Impeachments, Lotteries, Minorities, Motor vehicles, Narcotics, Reclamation of land, Recreation areas, Rivers, Sports and Recreation, Taxation, Territories (U.S.), Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water Resources Development, Youth.

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

Service record

14 Congresses
80th · 194793rd · 1973
Democrat · House · MA80th–93rd
Term datesexact
Members · Massachusetts
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Harold Daniel Donohue

Representative from Massachusetts
HOUSED1947–197514 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
88%with Democrats
of 1,807 votes · 12% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested88%of 1,807 · combined
Steepest move+25 pts1955→57, as a Democrat

Career arc

10050019471973
1973–74 · 93rd · Democrat · of 356 votes88.2%

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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 · 356 contested votes scored in the 93rd

By policy area

career
Economics and Public Finance88.4% · 69
Congress83.7% · 49
Energy87.9% · 33
Labor and Employment90.5% · 21
International Affairs56.3% · 16
Transportation and Public Works100% · 14
Government Operations and Politics92.3% · 13
Armed Forces and National Security83.3% · 12
District of Columbia100% · 12
Law100% · 11
Mines and mineral resources— · 7
Commerce— · 6
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 6
Crime and Law Enforcement— · 5
Education— · 5
Environmental Protection— · 5
Health— · 5
Housing and Community Development— · 5
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 4
Commemorations— · 4
Agriculture and Food— · 3
Congressional-executive relations— · 3
Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 3
Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 3
Vietnamese Conflict— · 3
Coins and coinage— · 2
Petroleum industry— · 2
Public works— · 2
Real property— · 2
Immigration— · 1
Livestock— · 1
Monuments and memorials— · 1
Private Legislation— · 1
Right of privacy— · 1
Science, Technology, Communications— · 1
Social Welfare— · 1

Also voted in 26 areas where the parties never split — never on a contested question: American Revolution Bicentennial, Animals, Child welfare, Credit, Disabled, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emergency Management, Executive reorganization, Finance and Financial Sector, Gold, Impeachments, Lotteries, Minorities, Motor vehicles, Narcotics, Reclamation of land, Recreation areas, Rivers, Sports and Recreation, Taxation, Territories (U.S.), Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water Resources Development, Youth.

Service record

80th · 194793rd · 1973
Democrat80th–93rd

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