Rep. John Cunningham
Former Representative for Washington’s 7th District
Cunningham was the representative for Washington’s 7th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1977 to 1978.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Cunningham is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Cunningham sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Cunningham sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (33%) Native Americans (21%) Education (12%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Labor and Employment (12%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Cunningham recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 13329 (95th): Native Americans Equal Opportunity Act
- H.J.Res. 903 (95th): A resolution disapproving proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury requiring …
- H.R. 12147 (95th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt …
- H.J.Res. 828 (95th): A resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation …
- H.J.Res. 815 (95th): A resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation …
- H.R. 11676 (95th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt …
- H.J.Res. 793 (95th): A resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1977 to Oct 1978, Cunningham missed 138 of 1,294 roll call votes, which is 10.7%. This is on par with the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills