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Andrew Jackson Young Jr.

Representative from Georgia
HOUSEDEMOCRAT1973–1979ID Y000028
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LegislationHEADLINE
95%with Dems
of 800 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
95%with Dems
of 800 · both combined
Steepest move
+4 pts
1975 → 1977
still a Democrat

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 Democrat
100%with Democrats
of 1 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Steepest move: 1975 → 1977, +4 pts — while still a Democrat.
Sat as a DemocratSat as a RepublicanVotes available below

Votes

3 of these 3 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
Feb 2, 1977S. 474No description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Feb 2, 1977noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Jan 4, 1977noneNo description in the source recordLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Yea · Republicans NayCounts toward scoreYes — the parties split.
Where this lands
YEASided with the Democratic majority
3 most recent roll calls shown · 1 contested votes scored in the 95th CongressAll votes this Congress →

By policy area

career · legislation
Economics and Public Finance96.6% · 148 votes
Congress92.8% · 83 votes
Energy94% · 83 votes
Government Operations and Politics96.2% · 52 votes
International Affairs97% · 33 votes
Armed Forces and National Security95.8% · 24 votes
Transportation and Public Works83.3% · 24 votes
Labor and Employment95.7% · 23 votes
Taxation86.4% · 22 votes
Agriculture and Food100% · 21 votes
Law100% · 17 votes
Commerce92.9% · 14 votes
Crime and Law Enforcement100% · 13 votes
District of Columbia100% · 12 votes
Education100% · 10 votes
Mines and mineral resources90% · 10 votes
Too few contested votes to score
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9 votes
Health— · 9 votes
Housing and Community Development— · 9 votes
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9 votes
Environmental Protection— · 8 votes
Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 8 votes
Depletion allowances— · 7 votes
Science, Technology, Communications— · 7 votes
Independent regulatory commissions— · 6 votes
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 5 votes
Finance and Financial Sector— · 5 votes
Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 5 votes
Mortgages— · 5 votes
Commemorations— · 4 votes
Congressional-executive relations— · 4 votes
Political participation— · 4 votes
Public works— · 4 votes
Coins and coinage— · 3 votes
Credit— · 3 votes
International economic relations— · 3 votes
Petroleum industry— · 3 votes
Revenue sharing— · 3 votes
Social Welfare— · 3 votes
Conferences— · 2 votes
Constitutional amendments— · 2 votes
Executive reorganization— · 2 votes
Life insurance— · 2 votes
Monuments and memorials— · 2 votes
Power resources— · 2 votes
Printing— · 2 votes
Private Legislation— · 2 votes
Day care— · 1 vote
Disabled— · 1 vote
Emergency Management— · 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
Lobbying— · 1 vote
Motor vehicles— · 1 vote
Postal rates and revenues— · 1 vote
Postal service— · 1 vote
Real property— · 1 vote
Reclamation of land— · 1 vote
Right of privacy— · 1 vote
Right to counsel— · 1 vote
Rivers— · 1 vote
Territories (U.S.)— · 1 vote
Water Resources Development— · 1 vote
Youth— · 1 vote

They also voted in 45 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, Congressional oversight, Corporations, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Gold, Government life insurance, Government property, Impeachments, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Leases, Libraries, Lotteries, Minorities, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Native Americans, Noise, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recreation areas, Refugees, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, 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
Democrat · House · GA93rd–95th
Term datesexact
Members · Georgia
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Andrew Jackson Young Jr.

Representative from Georgia
HOUSED1973–19793 CONGRESSES
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LegislationHEADLINE
95.1%with Democrats
of 800 votes · 4.9% with Republicans
Nominations—of 0 votes
All contested95%of 800 · combined
Steepest move+4 pts1975→77, as a Democrat

Career arc

10050019731977
1977–78 · 95th · Democrat · of 1 votes100%

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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 majorityNay
Counts toward scoreYes
Open roll call
Latest 3 shown · 1 contested votes scored in the 95th

By policy area

career
Economics and Public Finance96.6% · 148
Congress92.8% · 83
Energy94% · 83
Government Operations and Politics96.2% · 52
International Affairs97% · 33
Armed Forces and National Security95.8% · 24
Transportation and Public Works83.3% · 24
Labor and Employment95.7% · 23
Taxation86.4% · 22
Agriculture and Food100% · 21
Law100% · 17
Commerce92.9% · 14
Crime and Law Enforcement100% · 13
District of Columbia100% · 12
Education100% · 10
Mines and mineral resources90% · 10
Congressional-Presidential relations— · 9
Health— · 9
Housing and Community Development— · 9
Vietnamese Conflict— · 9
Environmental Protection— · 8
Public Lands and Natural Resources— · 8
Depletion allowances— · 7
Science, Technology, Communications— · 7
Independent regulatory commissions— · 6
Arts, Culture, Religion— · 5
Finance and Financial Sector— · 5
Foreign Trade and International Finance— · 5
Mortgages— · 5
Commemorations— · 4
Congressional-executive relations— · 4
Political participation— · 4
Public works— · 4
Coins and coinage— · 3
Credit— · 3
International economic relations— · 3
Petroleum industry— · 3
Revenue sharing— · 3
Social Welfare— · 3
Conferences— · 2
Constitutional amendments— · 2
Executive reorganization— · 2
Life insurance— · 2
Monuments and memorials— · 2
Power resources— · 2
Printing— · 2
Private Legislation— · 2
Day care— · 1
Disabled— · 1
Emergency Management— · 1
Government corporations— · 1
Heating— · 1
Immigration— · 1
Industrial relations— · 1
Intergovernmental relations— · 1
Lakes— · 1
Livestock— · 1
Lobbying— · 1
Motor vehicles— · 1
Postal rates and revenues— · 1
Postal service— · 1
Real property— · 1
Reclamation of land— · 1
Right of privacy— · 1
Right to counsel— · 1
Rivers— · 1
Territories (U.S.)— · 1
Water Resources Development— · 1
Youth— · 1

Also voted in 45 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, Congressional oversight, Corporations, Dairy industry, Disaster relief, Economic stabilization, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal-state relations, Fire fighters, Fishes, Gambling, Gold, Government life insurance, Government property, Impeachments, Interest, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Leases, Libraries, Lotteries, Minorities, Municipal politics and government, Narcotics, National emblems, Native Americans, Noise, Prices, Public records, Real estate business, Recreation areas, Refugees, Sports and Recreation, Strategic materials, Tobacco, Volunteer workers, Water conservation, Witnesses.

Service record

93rd · 197395th · 1977
Democrat93rd–95th

Party switchers

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