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William Francis Walsh

Representative from New York
HOUSEREPUBLICAN1973–1979ID W000107
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LegislationHEADLINE
36%with Dems
of 1,413 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
36%with Dems
of 1,413 · both combined
Steepest move
−13 pts
1975 → 1977
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 ↓1973
1977–7895th Congress
Sat as a Republican
29.3%with Democrats
of 549 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1975 → 1977, −13 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
Oct 14, 1978H.R. 13511No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Oct 14, 1978H.R. 13750No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Oct 14, 1978H.Res. 1448No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.Res. 1448), 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 14, 1978H.R. 12467No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Oct 14, 1978H.R. 15No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Oct 14, 1978S. 3447No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Oct 14, 1978S. 2493No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Oct 14, 1978H.R. 12250No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Oct 14, 1978H.R. 4018No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 549 contested votes scored in the 95th CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
Economics and Public Finance30.3% · 277 votes
Congress26.4% · 148 votes
Government Operations and Politics36.4% · 99 votes
Energy32.6% · 95 votes
International Affairs34.1% · 91 votes
Labor and Employment72.5% · 40 votes
Armed Forces and National Security13.2% · 38 votes
Transportation and Public Works59.5% · 37 votes
Agriculture and Food25% · 32 votes
Taxation9.4% · 32 votes
Law26.7% · 30 votes
Public Lands and Natural Resources24.1% · 29 votes
Commerce28.6% · 21 votes
Environmental Protection23.8% · 21 votes
Foreign Trade and International Finance33.3% · 21 votes
Education60% · 20 votes
Crime and Law Enforcement31.3% · 16 votes
Health50% · 16 votes
Mines and mineral resources64.3% · 14 votes
District of Columbia38.5% · 13 votes
Industrial relations46.2% · 13 votes
Social Welfare46.2% · 13 votes
Housing and Community Development20% · 10 votes
Too few contested votes to score
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9 votes
Independent regulatory commissions— · 9 votes
Lobbying— · 9 votes
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9 votes
Science, Technology, Communications— · 8 votes
Depletion allowances— · 7 votes
Electronic surveillance— · 7 votes
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 6 votes
Finance and Financial Sector— · 6 votes
Public works— · 6 votes
Black lung— · 5 votes
Commemorations— · 4 votes
Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes
Constitutional amendments— · 4 votes
Government securities— · 4 votes
Income tax— · 4 votes
Mortgages— · 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
Home repair and improvement— · 3 votes
Indian claims— · 3 votes
International economic relations— · 3 votes
Petroleum industry— · 3 votes
Postal rates and revenues— · 3 votes
Revenue sharing— · 3 votes
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues— · 2 votes
Conferences— · 2 votes
Contested elections— · 2 votes
Cultural centers— · 2 votes
Executive reorganization— · 2 votes
Financial disclosure— · 2 votes
Life insurance— · 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
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
Import restrictions— · 1 vote
Intergovernmental relations— · 1 vote
Lakes— · 1 vote
Livestock— · 1 vote
Monuments and memorials— · 1 vote
Motor vehicles— · 1 vote
Native Americans— · 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 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, Clothing industry, Commodity control, Conservation of natural resources, Contempt of legislative bodies, Corporations, 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, 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, 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

3 Congresses
93rd · 197395th · 1977
Republican · House · NY93rd–95th
Term datesexact
Members · New York
WW

William Francis Walsh

Representative from New York
HOUSER1973–19793 CONGRESSES
Compare
LegislationHEADLINE
35.7%with Democrats
of 1,413 votes · 64.3% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested36%of 1,413 · combined
Steepest move−13 pts1975→77, as a Republican

Career arc

10050019731977
1977–78 · 95th · Republican · of 549 votes29.3%

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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 · 549 contested votes scored in the 95th

By policy area

career
Economics and Public Finance30.3% · 277
Congress26.4% · 148
Government Operations and Politics36.4% · 99
Energy32.6% · 95
International Affairs34.1% · 91
Labor and Employment72.5% · 40
Armed Forces and National Security13.2% · 38
Transportation and Public Works59.5% · 37
Agriculture and Food25% · 32
Taxation9.4% · 32
Law26.7% · 30
Public Lands and Natural Resources24.1% · 29
Commerce28.6% · 21
Environmental Protection23.8% · 21
Foreign Trade and International Finance33.3% · 21
Education60% · 20
Crime and Law Enforcement31.3% · 16
Health50% · 16
Mines and mineral resources64.3% · 14
District of Columbia38.5% · 13
Industrial relations46.2% · 13
Social Welfare46.2% · 13
Housing and Community Development20% · 10
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9
Independent regulatory commissions— · 9
Lobbying— · 9
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9
Science, Technology, Communications— · 8
Depletion allowances— · 7
Electronic surveillance— · 7
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 6
Finance and Financial Sector— · 6
Public works— · 6
Black lung— · 5
Commemorations— · 4
Congressional-executive relations— · 4
Constitutional amendments— · 4
Government securities— · 4
Income tax— · 4
Mortgages— · 4
Municipal finance— · 4
Political participation— · 4
Private Legislation— · 4
Coins and coinage— · 3
Credit— · 3
Embargo— · 3
Home repair and improvement— · 3
Indian claims— · 3
International economic relations— · 3
Petroleum industry— · 3
Postal rates and revenues— · 3
Revenue sharing— · 3
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues— · 2
Conferences— · 2
Contested elections— · 2
Cultural centers— · 2
Executive reorganization— · 2
Financial disclosure— · 2
Life insurance— · 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
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
Import restrictions— · 1
Intergovernmental relations— · 1
Lakes— · 1
Livestock— · 1
Monuments and memorials— · 1
Motor vehicles— · 1
Native Americans— · 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 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, Clothing industry, Commodity control, Conservation of natural resources, Contempt of legislative bodies, Corporations, 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, 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, Solar energy, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Terrorism, Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Witnesses.

Service record

93rd · 197395th · 1977
Republican93rd–95th

Party switchers

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