Rep. John Rhodes III
Former Representative for Arizona’s 1st District
Rhodes was the representative for Arizona’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1987 to 1992.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Rhodes is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Rhodes sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Rhodes was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 5686 (102nd): To make technical amendments to certain Federal Indian statutes.
- H.R. 498 (101st): Indian Law Enforcement Reform Act
- H.R. 3620 (101st): To clarify the Food Security Act of 1985.
- H.R. 2677 (100th): Southern California Indian Land Transfer Act
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Rhodes sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (23%) Native Americans (23%) Health (19%) Environmental Protection (10%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%) Water Resources Development (6%) Social Welfare (4%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Rhodes recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 6070 (102nd): To establish a demonstration project under which payment shall be made under …
- H.R. 5947 (102nd): Amending the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to prohibit the expenditure of …
- H.R. 5932 (102nd): To provide for the resolution of the conflicting water rights claims for …
- H.R. 5694 (102nd): Land and Water Conservation Fund Equity Act of 1992
- H.R. 5686 (102nd): To make technical amendments to certain Federal Indian statutes.
- H.J.Res. 475 (102nd): Designating August 7, 1992, as “Battle of Guadalcanal Remembrance Day”.
- H.R. 5002 (102nd): Medicare Beneficiary Access and Financial Protection Act of 1992
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1987 to Oct 1992, Rhodes missed 44 of 2,775 roll call votes, which is 1.6%. This is better than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- 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