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Housing and Community Development

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Housing and Community Development. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Housing and Community Development

Member0%50%100%With Dems · votes
DJohn Conyers Jr.100% · 169 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman99.4% · 176 votesDBarney Frank99.4% · 164 votesDCharles B. Rangel98.3% · 179 votesDDavid Ross Obey98.2% · 168 votesDEdolphus Towns98.1% · 162 votesDDale Edward Kildee97.8% · 178 votesDGary Leonard Ackerman97.5% · 159 votesDJohn R. Lewis97.2% · 143 votesDEdward John Markey97.1% · 175 votesDSander Martin Levin97.1% · 175 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer97.1% · 175 votesDJames Louis Oberstar96.8% · 154 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.96.5% · 171 votesDGeorge Miller96.4% · 167 votesDHoward Lawrence Berman96.1% · 154 votesDDavid Eugene Price95.7% · 139 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur94.8% · 172 votesDNorman DeValois Dicks94.7% · 170 votesDPeter Anthony DeFazio93.3% · 135 votesDAlan Bowlby Mollohan92.5% · 133 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.92.3% · 182 votesDNick Joe Rahall II92.1% · 177 votesDFrederick C. Boucher91.2% · 136 votesDSolomon P. Ortiz90.8% · 142 votesDPeter Visclosky90% · 160 votesDJohn McKee Spratt Jr.88.7% · 133 votesDJohn Patrick Murtha Jr.86.1% · 158 votesDJames Hayes Shofner Cooper83.7% · 147 votesDBarton Jennings Gordon82.9% · 129 votesDIsaac Newton (Ike) Skelton IV80.9% · 141 votesRChristopher Henry Smith46.3% · 175 votesRRalph Straus Regula23.9% · 155 votesD→RRalph Moody Hall17.8% · 163 votesRFrank Rudolph Wolf17% · 165 votesRDonald Edwin Young15.5% · 174 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton14.5% · 145 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young11.4% · 176 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers10.9% · 175 votesRCharles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis10.4% · 173 votesRThomas Evert Petri9.1% · 175 votesRDaniel Edward Lungren7.4% · 149 votesRElton W. Gallegly5.4% · 129 votesRHoward Coble5.4% · 149 votesRDavid Timothy Dreier4.3% · 164 votesRJoe Linus Barton3.2% · 158 votesRWalter William (Wally) Herger2.3% · 129 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.2.2% · 186 votesRLamar Seeligson Smith1.4% · 140 votesRDanny Lee Burton1.2% · 161 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Housing and Community Development votes, of 2,201 who have cast one and 1,634 with enough to score. A further 304 voted in the area but never on a contested question. Blue bars sided with the Democratic majority more often than not; red bars with the Republican majority.

Where Housing and Community Development breaks from the rest of the record

vs. all legislation
All legislationHousing and Community Development
Christopher Henry Smith+19.6 pts
Alan Bowlby Mollohan+10.8 pts
Isaac Newton (Ike) Skelton IV+10.4 pts
Solomon P. Ortiz+9.8 pts

Christopher Henry Smith sided with Democrats 19 points more often on Housing and Community Development than on legislation overall.

Policy areas

Housing and Community Development

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Housing and Community Development. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Housing and Community Development

MemberWith Dems · votes
DJohn Conyers Jr.100% · 169 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman99.4% · 176 votesDBarney Frank99.4% · 164 votesDCharles B. Rangel98.3% · 179 votesDDavid Ross Obey98.2% · 168 votesDEdolphus Towns98.1% · 162 votesDDale Edward Kildee97.8% · 178 votesDGary Leonard Ackerman97.5% · 159 votesDJohn R. Lewis97.2% · 143 votesDEdward John Markey97.1% · 175 votesDSander Martin Levin97.1% · 175 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer97.1% · 175 votesDJames Louis Oberstar96.8% · 154 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.96.5% · 171 votesDGeorge Miller96.4% · 167 votesDHoward Lawrence Berman96.1% · 154 votesDDavid Eugene Price95.7% · 139 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur94.8% · 172 votesDNorman DeValois Dicks94.7% · 170 votesDPeter Anthony DeFazio93.3% · 135 votesDAlan Bowlby Mollohan92.5% · 133 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.92.3% · 182 votesDNick Joe Rahall II92.1% · 177 votesDFrederick C. Boucher91.2% · 136 votesDSolomon P. Ortiz90.8% · 142 votesDPeter Visclosky90% · 160 votesDJohn McKee Spratt Jr.88.7% · 133 votesDJohn Patrick Murtha Jr.86.1% · 158 votesDJames Hayes Shofner Cooper83.7% · 147 votesDBarton Jennings Gordon82.9% · 129 votesDIsaac Newton (Ike) Skelton IV80.9% · 141 votesRChristopher Henry Smith46.3% · 175 votesRRalph Straus Regula23.9% · 155 votesD→RRalph Moody Hall17.8% · 163 votesRFrank Rudolph Wolf17% · 165 votesRDonald Edwin Young15.5% · 174 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton14.5% · 145 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young11.4% · 176 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers10.9% · 175 votesRCharles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis10.4% · 173 votesRThomas Evert Petri9.1% · 175 votesRDaniel Edward Lungren7.4% · 149 votesRElton W. Gallegly5.4% · 129 votesRHoward Coble5.4% · 149 votesRDavid Timothy Dreier4.3% · 164 votesRJoe Linus Barton3.2% · 158 votesRWalter William (Wally) Herger2.3% · 129 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.2.2% · 186 votesRLamar Seeligson Smith1.4% · 140 votesRDanny Lee Burton1.2% · 161 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Housing and Community Development votes, of 2,201 who have cast one and 1,634 with enough to score. A further 304 voted in the area but never on a contested question. Blue bars sided with the Democratic majority more often than not; red bars with the Republican majority.

Where Housing and Community Development breaks from the rest of the record

All legislationHousing and Community Development
Christopher Henry Smith+19.6 pts
Alan Bowlby Mollohan+10.8 pts
Isaac Newton (Ike) Skelton IV+10.4 pts
Solomon P. Ortiz+9.8 pts

Christopher Henry Smith sided with Democrats 19 points more often on Housing and Community Development than on legislation overall.

How areas work

1Each bill's area comes from the Library of Congress subject terms.
2Only contested votes count, as everywhere else.
3A member with too few votes in an area is listed with the count, not hidden — "too few to score" and "no contested votes" are different claims.
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