Rep. Jack Brooks
Former Representative for Texas’s 9th District
![Photo of Rep. Jack Brooks [D-TX9, 1967-1994]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/401837-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Brooks is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1994 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 Brooks sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Brooks was the primary sponsor of 55 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 4781 (103rd): International Antitrust Enforcement Assistance Act of 1994
- H.R. 4777 (103rd): To make technical improvements in the United States Code by amending provisions to reflect the current names of congressional committees.
- H.R. 4778 (103rd): To codify without substantive change recent laws related to transportation and to improve the United States Code.
- H.R. 5116 (103rd): Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994
- H.R. 3355 (103rd): Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
- H.R. 1758 (103rd): To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to transportation, as subtitles II, III, and V-X of title 49, United States …
- H.R. 1313 (103rd): National Cooperative Production Amendments of 1993
Does 55 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
Brooks sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Crime and Law Enforcement (16%) Law (16%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Commerce (13%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (12%) Finance and Financial Sector (12%) Transportation and Public Works (10%) Economics and Public Finance (8%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Brooks recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5238 (103rd): To authorize the vessel R/V ROSS SEAL to be documented under the …
- H.R. 5116 (103rd): Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994
- H.R. 4781 (103rd): International Antitrust Enforcement Assistance Act of 1994
- H.R. 4777 (103rd): To make technical improvements in the United States Code by amending provisions …
- H.R. 4778 (103rd): To codify without substantive change recent laws related to transportation and to …
- H.R. 4601 (103rd): To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation …
- H.R. 4092 (103rd): Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1953 to Nov 1994, Brooks missed 1,532 of 14,776 roll call votes, which is 10.4%. This is much worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills