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Robert Dale Price

Representative from Texas
HOUSEREPUBLICAN1967–1975ID P000528
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LegislationHEADLINE
12%with Dems
of 833 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
12%with Dems
of 833 · both combined
Steepest move
+10 pts
1967 → 1969
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
1973–7493rd Congress
Sat as a Republican
13%with Democrats
of 347 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1967 → 1969, +10 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
Dec 20, 1974H.R. 620No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Dec 20, 1974S. 4206No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 20, 1974H.R. 421No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 421), 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 20, 1974H.R. 10710No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Dec 19, 1974H.Res. 1520No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Dec 19, 1974H.Res. 1511No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Dec 19, 1974S. 3976No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Dec 18, 1974S. 2439No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Dec 18, 1974H.R. 15977No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
9 most recent roll calls shown · 347 contested votes scored in the 93rd CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
Economics and Public Finance12.3% · 65 votes
Congress15.6% · 45 votes
Energy6.1% · 33 votes
Labor and Employment14.3% · 21 votes
International Affairs0% · 18 votes
Transportation and Public Works6.7% · 15 votes
District of Columbia0% · 14 votes
Armed Forces and National Security16.7% · 12 votes
Government Operations and Politics0% · 12 votes
Law0% · 11 votes
Too few contested votes to score
Mines and mineral resources— · 8 votes
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 6 votes
Commerce— · 5 votes
Crime and Law Enforcement— · 5 votes
Housing and Community Development— · 5 votes
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 4 votes
Commemorations— · 4 votes
Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes
Education— · 4 votes
Health— · 4 votes
Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 4 votes
Environmental Protection— · 3 votes
Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 3 votes
Petroleum industry— · 3 votes
Vietnamese Conflict— · 3 votes
Agriculture and Food— · 2 votes
Real property— · 2 votes
Coins and coinage— · 1 vote
Immigration— · 1 vote
Livestock— · 1 vote
Monuments and memorials— · 1 vote
Private Legislation— · 1 vote
Public works— · 1 vote
Right of privacy— · 1 vote
Science, Technology, Communications— · 1 vote
Water Resources Development— · 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, Social Welfare, Sports and Recreation, Taxation, Territories (U.S.), Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Youth.

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

Service record

4 Congresses
90th · 196793rd · 1973
Republican · House · TX90th–93rd
Term datesexact
Members · Texas
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Robert Dale Price

Representative from Texas
HOUSER1967–19754 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
11.5%with Democrats
of 833 votes · 88.5% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested12%of 833 · combined
Steepest move+10 pts1967→69, as a Republican

Career arc

10050019671973
1973–74 · 93rd · Republican · of 347 votes13%

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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 · 347 contested votes scored in the 93rd

By policy area

career
Economics and Public Finance12.3% · 65
Congress15.6% · 45
Energy6.1% · 33
Labor and Employment14.3% · 21
International Affairs0% · 18
Transportation and Public Works6.7% · 15
District of Columbia0% · 14
Armed Forces and National Security16.7% · 12
Government Operations and Politics0% · 12
Law0% · 11
Mines and mineral resources— · 8
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 6
Commerce— · 5
Crime and Law Enforcement— · 5
Housing and Community Development— · 5
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 4
Commemorations— · 4
Congressional-executive relations— · 4
Education— · 4
Health— · 4
Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 4
Environmental Protection— · 3
Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 3
Petroleum industry— · 3
Vietnamese Conflict— · 3
Agriculture and Food— · 2
Real property— · 2
Coins and coinage— · 1
Immigration— · 1
Livestock— · 1
Monuments and memorials— · 1
Private Legislation— · 1
Public works— · 1
Right of privacy— · 1
Science, Technology, Communications— · 1
Water Resources Development— · 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, Social Welfare, Sports and Recreation, Taxation, Territories (U.S.), Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Youth.

Service record

90th · 196793rd · 1973
Republican90th–93rd

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