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Alan Watson Steelman

Representative from Texas
HOUSEREPUBLICAN1973–1977ID S000841
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LegislationHEADLINE
29%with Dems
of 756 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
29%with Dems
of 756 · both combined
Steepest move
−14 pts
1973 → 1975
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
1975–7694th Congress
Sat as a Republican
22.3%with Democrats
of 395 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1973 → 1975, −14 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
Sep 30, 1976S. 3521No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Sep 22, 1976H.R. 12572No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Sep 16, 1976H.R. 14232No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYNEITHER · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, the bill number (H.R. 14232), how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans YeaCounts toward scoreNo — both party majorities voted Yea.
Where this lands
NAYVoted against both majorities — not scored
Sep 16, 1976S.Con.Res. 139No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Sep 16, 1976H.R. 8532No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Sep 16, 1976H.R. 8532No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Sep 16, 1976H.R. 10612No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Sep 16, 1976H.R. 10612No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Sep 16, 1976H.R. 10612No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
9 most recent roll calls shown · 395 contested votes scored in the 94th CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
Economics and Public Finance26.7% · 131 votes
Congress24.1% · 83 votes
Energy29.6% · 81 votes
Government Operations and Politics30.6% · 49 votes
International Affairs33.3% · 27 votes
Transportation and Public Works50% · 26 votes
Agriculture and Food16.7% · 24 votes
Armed Forces and National Security52.2% · 23 votes
Taxation9.1% · 22 votes
Labor and Employment20% · 20 votes
Law47.1% · 17 votes
Commerce35.7% · 14 votes
District of Columbia69.2% · 13 votes
Mines and mineral resources66.7% · 12 votes
Education18.2% · 11 votes
Too few contested votes to score
Environmental Protection— · 9 votes
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9 votes
Science, Technology, Communications— · 8 votes
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 7 votes
Crime and Law Enforcement— · 7 votes
Depletion allowances— · 7 votes
Finance and Financial Sector— · 7 votes
Health— · 7 votes
Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 6 votes
Housing and Community Development— · 6 votes
Mortgages— · 6 votes
Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 5 votes
Commemorations— · 4 votes
Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes
Independent regulatory commissions— · 4 votes
Political participation— · 4 votes
Public works— · 4 votes
International economic relations— · 3 votes
Postal rates and revenues— · 3 votes
Revenue sharing— · 3 votes
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 2 votes
Conferences— · 2 votes
Constitutional amendments— · 2 votes
Executive reorganization— · 2 votes
Life insurance— · 2 votes
Monuments and memorials— · 2 votes
Petroleum industry— · 2 votes
Power resources— · 2 votes
Printing— · 2 votes
Private Legislation— · 2 votes
Real property— · 2 votes
Social Welfare— · 2 votes
Youth— · 2 votes
Coins and coinage— · 1 vote
Congressional oversight— · 1 vote
Credit— · 1 vote
Day care— · 1 vote
Disabled— · 1 vote
Government corporations— · 1 vote
Heating— · 1 vote
Immigration— · 1 vote
Industrial relations— · 1 vote
Intergovernmental relations— · 1 vote
Lakes— · 1 vote
Livestock— · 1 vote
Noise— · 1 vote
Postal service— · 1 vote
Reclamation of land— · 1 vote
Refugees— · 1 vote
Right of privacy— · 1 vote
Right to counsel— · 1 vote
Rivers— · 1 vote

They also voted in 47 areas where the parties never split, so there is nothing to score — never on a contested question: American Revolution Bicentennial, Animals, Awards, medals, prizes, Cemeteries and funerals, Chemicals, Child welfare, Citizenship, Clergy, Corporations, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emergency Management, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Gold, Government life insurance, Government property, Impeachments, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Leases, Libraries, Lobbying, Lotteries, Minorities, Motor vehicles, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Native Americans, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recreation areas, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Territories (U.S.), Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Water Resources Development, Witnesses.

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

Service record

2 Congresses
93rd · 197394th · 1975
Republican · House · TX93rd–94th
Term datesexact
Members · Texas
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Alan Watson Steelman

Representative from Texas
HOUSER1973–19772 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
29.1%with Democrats
of 756 votes · 70.9% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested29%of 756 · combined
Steepest move−14 pts1973→75, as a Republican

Career arc

10050019731975
1975–76 · 94th · Republican · of 395 votes22.3%

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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 · 395 contested votes scored in the 94th

By policy area

career
Economics and Public Finance26.7% · 131
Congress24.1% · 83
Energy29.6% · 81
Government Operations and Politics30.6% · 49
International Affairs33.3% · 27
Transportation and Public Works50% · 26
Agriculture and Food16.7% · 24
Armed Forces and National Security52.2% · 23
Taxation9.1% · 22
Labor and Employment20% · 20
Law47.1% · 17
Commerce35.7% · 14
District of Columbia69.2% · 13
Mines and mineral resources66.7% · 12
Education18.2% · 11
Environmental Protection— · 9
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9
Science, Technology, Communications— · 8
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 7
Crime and Law Enforcement— · 7
Depletion allowances— · 7
Finance and Financial Sector— · 7
Health— · 7
Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 6
Housing and Community Development— · 6
Mortgages— · 6
Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 5
Commemorations— · 4
Congressional-executive relations— · 4
Independent regulatory commissions— · 4
Political participation— · 4
Public works— · 4
International economic relations— · 3
Postal rates and revenues— · 3
Revenue sharing— · 3
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 2
Conferences— · 2
Constitutional amendments— · 2
Executive reorganization— · 2
Life insurance— · 2
Monuments and memorials— · 2
Petroleum industry— · 2
Power resources— · 2
Printing— · 2
Private Legislation— · 2
Real property— · 2
Social Welfare— · 2
Youth— · 2
Coins and coinage— · 1
Congressional oversight— · 1
Credit— · 1
Day care— · 1
Disabled— · 1
Government corporations— · 1
Heating— · 1
Immigration— · 1
Industrial relations— · 1
Intergovernmental relations— · 1
Lakes— · 1
Livestock— · 1
Noise— · 1
Postal service— · 1
Reclamation of land— · 1
Refugees— · 1
Right of privacy— · 1
Right to counsel— · 1
Rivers— · 1

Also voted in 47 areas where the parties never split — never on a contested question: American Revolution Bicentennial, Animals, Awards, medals, prizes, Cemeteries and funerals, Chemicals, Child welfare, Citizenship, Clergy, Corporations, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Emergency Management, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Gold, Government life insurance, Government property, Impeachments, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Leases, Libraries, Lobbying, Lotteries, Minorities, Motor vehicles, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Native Americans, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recreation areas, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Territories (U.S.), Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Water Resources Development, Witnesses.

Service record

93rd · 197394th · 1975
Republican93rd–94th

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