Benjamin Bentley Blackburn

Representative from Georgia

HOUSEREPUBLICAN1967–1975ID B000506

LegislationHEADLINE

12%with Dems

of 740 votes

Nominations

—with Dems

of 0 · confirmations only

All contested

12%with Dems

of 740 · 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

13.3%with Democrats

of 309 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. 14449No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED

Dec 20, 1974H.R. 6668No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · 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

Open roll call

Dec 19, 1974H.Res. 1494No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · 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 recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · 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 · 309 contested votes scored in the 93rd CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation

Economics and Public Finance20.3% · 64 votes

Congress6.3% · 32 votes

Energy21.9% · 32 votes

Labor and Employment5% · 20 votes

Transportation and Public Works0% · 15 votes

District of Columbia15.4% · 13 votes

International Affairs23.1% · 13 votes

Government Operations and Politics40% · 10 votes

Law0% · 10 votes

Too few contested votes to score

Mines and mineral resources— · 8 votes

Armed Forces and National Security— · 6 votes

Congressional-Presidential relations— · 6 votes

Environmental Protection— · 5 votes

Arts, Culture, Religion— · 4 votes

Commemorations— · 4 votes

Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes

Education— · 4 votes

Health— · 4 votes

Housing and Community Development— · 4 votes

Agriculture and Food— · 3 votes

Coins and coinage— · 3 votes

Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 3 votes

Vietnamese Conflict— · 3 votes

Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 2 votes

Real property— · 2 votes

Commerce— · 1 vote

Crime and Law Enforcement— · 1 vote

Gold— · 1 vote

Livestock— · 1 vote

Monuments and memorials— · 1 vote

Private Legislation— · 1 vote

Public works— · 1 vote

Right of privacy— · 1 vote

Social Welfare— · 1 vote

Water Resources Development— · 1 vote

They also voted in 27 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, Immigration, Impeachments, Lotteries, Minorities, Motor vehicles, Narcotics, Petroleum industry, Reclamation of land, Recreation areas, Rivers, Science, Technology, Communications, 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 · GA90th–93rd

Term datesexact

Benjamin Bentley Blackburn

Representative from Georgia

HOUSER1967–19754 CONGRESSES

Compare

LegislationHEADLINE

12.4%with Democrats

of 740 votes · 87.6% with Republicans

Nominations—of 0 votes

All contested12%of 740 · combined

Steepest move+10 pts1967→69, as a Republican

Career arc

10050019671973

1973–74 · 93rd · Republican · of 309 votes13.3%

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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 · 309 contested votes scored in the 93rd

By policy area

career

Economics and Public Finance20.3% · 64

Congress6.3% · 32

Energy21.9% · 32

Labor and Employment5% · 20

Transportation and Public Works0% · 15

District of Columbia15.4% · 13

International Affairs23.1% · 13

Government Operations and Politics40% · 10

Law0% · 10

Mines and mineral resources— · 8

Armed Forces and National Security— · 6

Congressional-Presidential relations— · 6

Environmental Protection— · 5

Arts, Culture, Religion— · 4

Commemorations— · 4

Congressional-executive relations— · 4

Education— · 4

Health— · 4

Housing and Community Development— · 4

Agriculture and Food— · 3

Coins and coinage— · 3

Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 3

Vietnamese Conflict— · 3

Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 2

Real property— · 2

Commerce— · 1

Crime and Law Enforcement— · 1

Gold— · 1

Livestock— · 1

Monuments and memorials— · 1

Private Legislation— · 1

Public works— · 1

Right of privacy— · 1

Social Welfare— · 1

Water Resources Development— · 1

Also voted in 27 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, Immigration, Impeachments, Lotteries, Minorities, Motor vehicles, Narcotics, Petroleum industry, Reclamation of land, Recreation areas, Rivers, Science, Technology, Communications, Sports and Recreation, Taxation, Territories (U.S.), Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Youth.

Service record

90th · 196793rd · 1973

Republican90th–93rd

Party switchers

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