Rep. David Price
Former Representative for North Carolina’s 4th District
pronounced DAY-vid // prīss
Price was the representative for North Carolina’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1997 to 2022.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1987 to 1994.
![Photo of Rep. David Price [D-NC4, 1997-2022]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/400326-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Price.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Price is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 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 Price sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Price was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 8294 (117th): Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023
- H.R. 4550 (117th): Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022
- H.R. 2460 (117th): Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act
- H.R. 7616 (116th): Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021
- H.R. 3163 (116th): Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020
- H.R. 267 (116th): Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
- H.R. 4707 (114th): Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Modernization Act of 2016
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Price sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (34%) Education (21%) Taxation (13%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Labor and Employment (8%) International Affairs (5%) Water Resources Development (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Price recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 8294 (117th): Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023
- H.Res. 833 (117th): Reaffirming support for strong United States and Moldova relations, Moldova’s democracy, and …
- H.R. 5882 (117th): SHELTER Act of 2021
- H.R. 4550 (117th): Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022
- H.R. 4100 (117th): CORPS Act
- H.R. 2940 (117th): Advancing International and Foreign Language Education Act
- H.R. 2610 (117th): SCORE Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1987 to Dec 2022, Price missed 336 of 20,554 roll call votes, which is 1.6%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. 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
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills