Marvin Leonel Esch

Representative from Michigan

HOUSEREPUBLICAN1967–1977ID E000213

LegislationHEADLINE

43%with Dems

of 1,087 votes

Nominations

—with Dems

of 0 · confirmations only

All contested

43%with Dems

of 1,087 · both combined

Steepest move

−19 pts

1973 → 1975

still a Republican

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 ↓19671973

1975–7694th Congress

Sat as a Republican

33.2%with Democrats

of 319 contested votes

Votes for this Congress are open below

Steepest move: 1973 → 1975, −19 pts — within one party label.

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

Sep 29, 1976H.R. 13655No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY

Sep 16, 1976H.R. 10612No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY

Sep 15, 1976H.R. 10498No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY

Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 10498), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Nay · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreYes — the parties split.

Where this lands

YEASided with the Republican majority

Open roll call

Sep 9, 1976H.R. 14469No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY

Sep 9, 1976H.R. 14469No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYBOTH · NOT SCORED

Sep 9, 1976H.R. 14496No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEANEITHER · NOT SCORED

Sep 9, 1976H.R. 14262No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED

Sep 9, 1976H.Con.Res. 728No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY

Sep 1, 1976H.R. 14283No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY

9 most recent roll calls shown · 319 contested votes scored in the 94th CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation

Economics and Public Finance55.2% · 116 votes

Congress27.6% · 76 votes

Energy20.5% · 73 votes

Government Operations and Politics44.7% · 38 votes

International Affairs80% · 25 votes

Labor and Employment27.3% · 22 votes

Taxation4.8% · 21 votes

Transportation and Public Works55% · 20 votes

Agriculture and Food31.6% · 19 votes

Armed Forces and National Security63.2% · 19 votes

District of Columbia80% · 15 votes

Commerce28.6% · 14 votes

Law91.7% · 12 votes

Crime and Law Enforcement30% · 10 votes

Mines and mineral resources70% · 10 votes

Too few contested votes to score

Education— · 8 votes

Vietnamese Conflict— · 8 votes

Congressional-Presidential relations— · 7 votes

Depletion allowances— · 7 votes

Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 6 votes

Health— · 6 votes

Housing and Community Development— · 5 votes

Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 5 votes

Science, Technology, Communications— · 5 votes

Commemorations— · 4 votes

Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes

Environmental Protection— · 4 votes

Finance and Financial Sector— · 3 votes

Petroleum industry— · 3 votes

Political participation— · 3 votes

Public works— · 3 votes

Revenue sharing— · 3 votes

Arts, Culture, Religion— · 2 votes

Constitutional amendments— · 2 votes

Executive reorganization— · 2 votes

Independent regulatory commissions— · 2 votes

International economic relations— · 2 votes

Mortgages— · 2 votes

Power resources— · 2 votes

Printing— · 2 votes

Private Legislation— · 2 votes

Real property— · 2 votes

Social Welfare— · 2 votes

Youth— · 2 votes

Coins and coinage— · 1 vote

Credit— · 1 vote

Day care— · 1 vote

Disabled— · 1 vote

Government corporations— · 1 vote

Immigration— · 1 vote

Industrial relations— · 1 vote

Intergovernmental relations— · 1 vote

Life insurance— · 1 vote

Livestock— · 1 vote

Monuments and memorials— · 1 vote

Motor vehicles— · 1 vote

Postal rates and revenues— · 1 vote

Reclamation of land— · 1 vote

Right of privacy— · 1 vote

Water Resources Development— · 1 vote

They also voted in 54 areas where the parties never split, so there is nothing to score — never on a contested question: American Revolution Bicentennial, Animals, Awards, medals, prizes, Cemeteries and funerals, Chemicals, Child welfare, Citizenship, Clergy, Conferences, Congressional oversight, Corporations, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emergency Management, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Gold, Government life insurance, Government property, Heating, Impeachments, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Lakes, Leases, Libraries, Lobbying, Lotteries, Minorities, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Native Americans, Noise, Postal service, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recreation areas, Refugees, Right to counsel, Rivers, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Territories (U.S.), 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

90th · 196794th · 1975

Republican · House · MI90th–94th

Term datesexact

Marvin Leonel Esch

Representative from Michigan

HOUSER1967–19775 CONGRESSES

Compare

LegislationHEADLINE

43%with Democrats

of 1,087 votes · 57% with Republicans

Nominations—of 0 votes

All contested43%of 1,087 · combined

Steepest move−19 pts1973→75, as a Republican

Career arc

10050019671975

1975–76 · 94th · Republican · of 319 votes33.2%

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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 majorityNay

Republican majorityYea

Counts toward scoreYes

Open roll call

Latest 6 shown · 319 contested votes scored in the 94th

By policy area

career

Economics and Public Finance55.2% · 116

Congress27.6% · 76

Energy20.5% · 73

Government Operations and Politics44.7% · 38

International Affairs80% · 25

Labor and Employment27.3% · 22

Taxation4.8% · 21

Transportation and Public Works55% · 20

Agriculture and Food31.6% · 19

Armed Forces and National Security63.2% · 19

District of Columbia80% · 15

Commerce28.6% · 14

Law91.7% · 12

Crime and Law Enforcement30% · 10

Mines and mineral resources70% · 10

Education— · 8

Vietnamese Conflict— · 8

Congressional-Presidential relations— · 7

Depletion allowances— · 7

Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 6

Health— · 6

Housing and Community Development— · 5

Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 5

Science, Technology, Communications— · 5

Commemorations— · 4

Congressional-executive relations— · 4

Environmental Protection— · 4

Finance and Financial Sector— · 3

Petroleum industry— · 3

Political participation— · 3

Public works— · 3

Revenue sharing— · 3

Arts, Culture, Religion— · 2

Constitutional amendments— · 2

Executive reorganization— · 2

Independent regulatory commissions— · 2

International economic relations— · 2

Mortgages— · 2

Power resources— · 2

Printing— · 2

Private Legislation— · 2

Real property— · 2

Social Welfare— · 2

Youth— · 2

Coins and coinage— · 1

Credit— · 1

Day care— · 1

Disabled— · 1

Government corporations— · 1

Immigration— · 1

Industrial relations— · 1

Intergovernmental relations— · 1

Life insurance— · 1

Livestock— · 1

Monuments and memorials— · 1

Motor vehicles— · 1

Postal rates and revenues— · 1

Reclamation of land— · 1

Right of privacy— · 1

Water Resources Development— · 1

Also voted in 54 areas where the parties never split — never on a contested question: American Revolution Bicentennial, Animals, Awards, medals, prizes, Cemeteries and funerals, Chemicals, Child welfare, Citizenship, Clergy, Conferences, Congressional oversight, Corporations, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emergency Management, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Gold, Government life insurance, Government property, Heating, Impeachments, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Lakes, Leases, Libraries, Lobbying, Lotteries, Minorities, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Native Americans, Noise, Postal service, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recreation areas, Refugees, Right to counsel, Rivers, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Territories (U.S.), Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Witnesses.

Service record

90th · 196794th · 1975

Republican90th–94th

Party switchers

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