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Donald Edwin Young

Representative from Alaska
HOUSEREPUBLICAN1973–2023ID Y000033
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LegislationHEADLINE
16%with Dems
of 14,232 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
16%with Dems
of 14,232 · both combined
Steepest move
−15 pts
2009 → 2011
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 ↓197319791985199119972003200920152021
2021–22117th Congress
Sat as a Republican
17.6%with Democrats
of 301 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 2009 → 2011, −15 pts — within one party label.
Sat as a DemocratSat as a RepublicanVotes available below

Votes

1 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
Mar 17, 2022H.R. 963FAIR ActLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Mar 17, 2022H.R. 963FAIR ActLEGISLATIONYEAREP MAJORITY
Mar 17, 2022H.R. 963No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 963), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Nay · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreYes — the parties split.
Where this lands
NAYSided with the Democratic majority
Mar 17, 2022H.R. 7108Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus ActLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 16, 2022H.R. 6434Japanese American World War II History Network ActLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 16, 2022H.R. 4380To designate the El Paso Community Healing Garden National Memorial, and for other purposesLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 16, 2022H.R. 3197Save the Liberty Theatre ActLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 16, 2022H.Res. 979Providing for consideration of H.R. 963, FAIR Act of 2022 and H.R. 2116, CROWN Act of 2021LEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Mar 16, 2022H.Res. 979Providing for consideration of H.R. 963, FAIR Act of 2022 and H.R. 2116, CROWN Act of 2021LEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
9 most recent roll calls shown · 301 contested votes scored in the 117th CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
Economics and Public Finance25.6% · 3,266 votes
Congress6.4% · 3,017 votes
Armed Forces and National Security12.6% · 1,013 votes
Government Operations and Politics15.3% · 752 votes
International Affairs10.6% · 548 votes
Public Lands and Natural Resources11.7% · 444 votes
Energy4.8% · 399 votes
Health11.6% · 335 votes
Labor and Employment39.5% · 334 votes
Taxation7.8% · 334 votes
Finance and Financial Sector8.2% · 330 votes
Environmental Protection8.4% · 287 votes
Crime and Law Enforcement7.7% · 286 votes
Transportation and Public Works28.5% · 274 votes
Education26% · 235 votes
Agriculture and Food35.7% · 213 votes
Science, Technology, Communications16.5% · 200 votes
Law8.8% · 194 votes
Foreign Trade and International Finance26.4% · 174 votes
Housing and Community Development15.5% · 174 votes
Emergency Management17.5% · 171 votes
Commerce9.1% · 121 votes
Immigration9.2% · 109 votes
Water Resources Development26.9% · 108 votes
Social Welfare11.9% · 84 votes
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues21.4% · 70 votes
Native Americans52.6% · 57 votes
Commemorations11.8% · 34 votes
Families25.9% · 27 votes
Arts, Culture, Religion36.8% · 19 votes
Animals11.8% · 17 votes
Industrial relations61.5% · 13 votes
Mines and mineral resources0% · 13 votes
District of Columbia40% · 10 votes
Too few contested votes to score
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9 votes
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9 votes
Independent regulatory commissions— · 8 votes
Depletion allowances— · 7 votes
Private Legislation— · 7 votes
Black lung— · 6 votes
Mortgages— · 6 votes
Public works— · 5 votes
Sports and Recreation— · 5 votes
Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes
Political participation— · 4 votes
Credit— · 3 votes
Embargo— · 3 votes
Government securities— · 3 votes
Home repair and improvement— · 3 votes
Income tax— · 3 votes
Municipal finance— · 3 votes
Petroleum industry— · 3 votes
Postal rates and revenues— · 3 votes
Revenue sharing— · 3 votes
Social Sciences and History— · 3 votes
Conferences— · 2 votes
Constitutional amendments— · 2 votes
Contested elections— · 2 votes
Cultural centers— · 2 votes
International economic relations— · 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
Youth— · 2 votes
Aquaculture— · 1 vote
Barber and beauty shops— · 1 vote
Coins and coinage— · 1 vote
Congressional oversight— · 1 vote
Day care— · 1 vote
Disabled— · 1 vote
Droughts— · 1 vote
Electronic surveillance— · 1 vote
Executive reorganization— · 1 vote
Financial disclosure— · 1 vote
Gold— · 1 vote
Government corporations— · 1 vote
Import restrictions— · 1 vote
Intergovernmental relations— · 1 vote
Livestock— · 1 vote
Lobbying— · 1 vote
Motor vehicles— · 1 vote
Noise— · 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
Territories (U.S.)— · 1 vote

They also voted in 75 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, Chemicals, 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, Domestic relations, Earthquakes, Economic stabilization, Emigration, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Government life insurance, Government property, Government publications, Heating, Human rights, Impeachments, Indian claims, Insect control, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, International agencies, Lakes, Leases, Libraries, Lotteries, Marine mammal protection, Marine resources conservation, Minorities, Municipal budgets, Municipal home rule, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Nuclear facilities, Nuclear weapons, Photovoltaic power systems, Political prisoners, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recall of officials, Recreation areas, Referendum, Rivers, Rural conditions, Salaries, Solar energy, 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

25 Congresses
93rd · 1973117th · 2021
Republican · House · AK93rd–117th
Term datesexact
Members · Alaska
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Donald Edwin Young

Representative from Alaska
HOUSER1973–202325 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
16%with Democrats
of 14,232 votes · 84% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested16%of 14,232 · combined
Steepest move−15 pts2009→11, as a Republican

Career arc

10050019732021
2021–22 · 117th · Republican · of 301 votes17.6%

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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 · 301 contested votes scored in the 117th

By policy area

career
Economics and Public Finance25.6% · 3,266
Congress6.4% · 3,017
Armed Forces and National Security12.6% · 1,013
Government Operations and Politics15.3% · 752
International Affairs10.6% · 548
Public Lands and Natural Resources11.7% · 444
Energy4.8% · 399
Health11.6% · 335
Labor and Employment39.5% · 334
Taxation7.8% · 334
Finance and Financial Sector8.2% · 330
Environmental Protection8.4% · 287
Crime and Law Enforcement7.7% · 286
Transportation and Public Works28.5% · 274
Education26% · 235
Agriculture and Food35.7% · 213
Science, Technology, Communications16.5% · 200
Law8.8% · 194
Foreign Trade and International Finance26.4% · 174
Housing and Community Development15.5% · 174
Emergency Management17.5% · 171
Commerce9.1% · 121
Immigration9.2% · 109
Water Resources Development26.9% · 108
Social Welfare11.9% · 84
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues21.4% · 70
Native Americans52.6% · 57
Commemorations11.8% · 34
Families25.9% · 27
Arts, Culture, Religion36.8% · 19
Animals11.8% · 17
Industrial relations61.5% · 13
Mines and mineral resources0% · 13
District of Columbia40% · 10
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9
Independent regulatory commissions— · 8
Depletion allowances— · 7
Private Legislation— · 7
Black lung— · 6
Mortgages— · 6
Public works— · 5
Sports and Recreation— · 5
Congressional-executive relations— · 4
Political participation— · 4
Credit— · 3
Embargo— · 3
Government securities— · 3
Home repair and improvement— · 3
Income tax— · 3
Municipal finance— · 3
Petroleum industry— · 3
Postal rates and revenues— · 3
Revenue sharing— · 3
Social Sciences and History— · 3
Conferences— · 2
Constitutional amendments— · 2
Contested elections— · 2
Cultural centers— · 2
International economic relations— · 2
Life insurance— · 2
Monuments and memorials— · 2
Museums— · 2
Power resources— · 2
Printing— · 2
Real property— · 2
Youth— · 2
Aquaculture— · 1
Barber and beauty shops— · 1
Coins and coinage— · 1
Congressional oversight— · 1
Day care— · 1
Disabled— · 1
Droughts— · 1
Electronic surveillance— · 1
Executive reorganization— · 1
Financial disclosure— · 1
Gold— · 1
Government corporations— · 1
Import restrictions— · 1
Intergovernmental relations— · 1
Livestock— · 1
Lobbying— · 1
Motor vehicles— · 1
Noise— · 1
Political representation— · 1
Postal service— · 1
Reclamation of land— · 1
Refugees— · 1
Rehabilitation— · 1
Right of privacy— · 1
Right to counsel— · 1
Territories (U.S.)— · 1

Also voted in 75 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, Chemicals, 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, Domestic relations, Earthquakes, Economic stabilization, Emigration, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Government life insurance, Government property, Government publications, Heating, Human rights, Impeachments, Indian claims, Insect control, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, International agencies, Lakes, Leases, Libraries, Lotteries, Marine mammal protection, Marine resources conservation, Minorities, Municipal budgets, Municipal home rule, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Nuclear facilities, Nuclear weapons, Photovoltaic power systems, Political prisoners, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recall of officials, Recreation areas, Referendum, Rivers, Rural conditions, Salaries, Solar energy, Strategic materials, Terrorism, Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Witnesses.

Service record

93rd · 1973117th · 2021
Republican93rd–117th

Party switchers

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