Rep. Clay Shaw

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Shaw is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2006 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 Shaw sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2001 to Dec 8, 2006. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Shaw was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 743 (108th): Social Security Protection Act of 2004
• H.R. 2264 (108th): Congo Basin Forest Partnership Act of 2004
• H.R. 4823 (107th): Holocaust Restitution Tax Fairness Act of 2002
• H.R. 4558 (105th): Noncitizen Benefit Clarification and Other Technical Amendments Act of1998
• H.R. 3130 (105th): Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998
• H.R. 3034 (105th): To amend section 13031 of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, relating to customs user fees, to allow the use of such fees to provide …
• H.R. 660 (104th): Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995

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Does 13 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

Shaw sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (16%) Commerce (16%) Taxation (14%) Social Welfare (12%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Law (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (10%) Health (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Shaw recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.Res. 941 (109th): Honoring the service of Gerard Latortue, Haiti’s Interim Prime Minister.
• H.Res. 923 (109th): Condemning the recent attacks against the State of Israel.
• H.Con.Res. 438 (109th): Expressing the sense of the Congress that continuation of the welfare reforms …
• H.R. 5514 (109th): Medicare Lung Cancer Screening Benefit Act of 2006
• H.R. 5437 (109th): Medicare Early Detection of Cancer Promotion Act of 2006
• H.R. 5314 (109th): 401Kids Family Savings Act of 2006
• H.R. 5309 (109th): Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers’ Compensation Settlement Agreements Act of 2006

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1981 to Dec 2006, Shaw missed 422 of 13,677 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. This is on par with the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. 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.

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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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills