Rep. Walter Flowers

Former Representative for Alabama’s 7^th District

Flowers was the representative for Alabama’s 7^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1973 to 1978.

He was previously the representative for Alabama’s 5^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1969 to 1972.

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Flowers 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 Flowers sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Flowers was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

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Does 4 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Flowers sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (35%) Private Legislation (24%) Law (13%) Taxation (11%) Economics and Public Finance (4%) Education (4%) Agriculture and Food (4%) Armed Forces and National Security (4%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Flowers recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1969 to Oct 1978, Flowers missed 849 of 4,983 roll call votes, which is 17.0%. This is much worse than 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	1	3.6%	23^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	8	17.8%	79^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	15	17.0%	68^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	29^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	19	25.7%	77^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	1	1.3%	7^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	7	8.6%	26^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	19	21.1%	78^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	3	2.2%	11^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	6	9.4%	49^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	28	24.6%	82^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	12	11.9%	61^st
1972 Oct-Oct	50	15	30.0%	77^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	59^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	19	9.9%	59^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	13	9.9%	74^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	14	7.7%	54^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	11	13.9%	71^st
1974 Apr-Jun	170	26	15.3%	73^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	18	12.2%	79^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	18	12.8%	63^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	14	20.6%	89^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	17	8.5%	63^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	17	11.0%	75^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	21	11.0%	75^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	21	19.8%	92^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	267	75	28.1%	95^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	3	1.1%	11^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	2	2.0%	23^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	273	18	6.6%	45^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	6	3.0%	27^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	23	17.0%	84^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	17	11.3%	65^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	115	38.3%	93^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	228	74.0%	99^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	13	17.1%	80^th

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