Rep. Morris Udall
Former Representative for Arizona’s 2nd District
Udall was the representative for Arizona’s 2nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1961 to 1991.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Udall is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Udall sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Udall was the primary sponsor of 68 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 2570 (101st): Arizona Desert Wilderness Act of 1990
- H.R. 5237 (101st): Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
- H.R. 2843 (101st): To establish the Kino Missions National Monument in the State of Arizona.
- H.R. 3625 (101st): To award a congressional gold medal to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller.
- H.J.Res. 163 (101st): To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964 which established the National Wilderness Preservation System.
- H.R. 5261 (100th): Indian Health Care Amendments of 1988
- H.R. 5232 (100th): Southwestern Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act
Does 68 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
Udall sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Native Americans (27%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Energy (14%) Environmental Protection (12%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) Economics and Public Finance (11%) Health (5%) Arts, Culture, Religion (4%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Udall recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 39 (102nd): To designate certain lands in Alaska as wilderness.
- H.Res. 507 (101st): Authorizing the printing of a history of the Committee on Interior and …
- H.R. 5539 (101st): San Carlos Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990
- H.R. 5237 (101st): Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
- H.R. 5223 (101st): San Carlos Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990
- H.R. 5186 (101st): To establish a demonstration program to allow drug-addicted mothers to reside in …
- H.Con.Res. 341 (101st): Expressing the sense of the Congress with regard to a United States-Mexico …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1961 to May 1991, Udall missed 1,937 of 12,100 roll call votes, which is 16.0%. This is much worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1991. 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills