Rep. David Monson

Former Representative for Utah’s 2^nd District

Monson was the representative for Utah’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1985 to 1986.

Bioguide

Enacted Legislation

Monson was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

H.R. 2542 (99th): A bill designating the building located at 125 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, as the “Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building”.

Does 1 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

Monson sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (100%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Monson recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1985 to Oct 1986, Monson missed 65 of 890 roll call votes, which is 7.3%. This is on par with the median of 6.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. 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
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	19^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	2	1.3%	15^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	6	5.9%	59^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	12	8.1%	74^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	17	27.9%	94^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	10	7.8%	73^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	202	17	8.4%	73^rd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^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