Rep. Theodore Risenhoover

Former Representative for Oklahoma’s 2^nd District

Risenhoover was the representative for Oklahoma’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1975 to 1978.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

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

Enacted Legislation

Risenhoover was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

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Does 3 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

Risenhoover sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (20%) Native Americans (18%) Water Resources Development (15%) Social Welfare (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (9%) Agriculture and Food (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Risenhoover recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1975 to Oct 1978, Risenhoover missed 583 of 2,813 roll call votes, which is 20.7%. 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
1975 Jan-Mar	68	14	20.6%	89^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	33	16.6%	88^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	47	30.5%	98^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	28	14.7%	88^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	13	12.3%	78^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	68	25.5%	92^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	281	95	33.8%	96^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	11^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	14	5.1%	35^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	16	8.1%	60^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	14	10.4%	65^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	50	33.3%	96^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	52	17.3%	77^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	112	36.4%	92^nd
1978 Oct-Oct	76	26	34.2%	90^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