Rep. Richard Ray

Former Representative for Georgia’s 3^rd District

Ray was the representative for Georgia’s 3^rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1983 to 1992.

Bioguide

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Ray 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 Ray sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Ray was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

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Does 3 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

Ray sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Environmental Protection (57%) Armed Forces and National Security (43%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Ray recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1983 to Oct 1992, Ray missed 489 of 4,571 roll call votes, which is 10.7%. This is much worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	33^rd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	2	1.1%	10^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	5	3.5%	34^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	14	6.3%	51^st
1984 Jul-Sep	96	1	1.0%	18^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	36^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	2	1.3%	16^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	21^st
1985 Oct-Dec	148	2	1.4%	23^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	50^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	2	1.6%	27^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	4	2.0%	34^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	114	61.0%	99^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	14	14.7%	91^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	7	4.2%	29^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	12	24.5%	95^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	105	65.2%	99^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	8	5.3%	57^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	11	12.4%	84^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	2	1.9%	29^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	4	3.1%	54^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	8	6.6%	68^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	8	5.3%	70^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	9	4.9%	70^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	16	11.2%	89^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	5	8.1%	82^nd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	45^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	7	8.6%	76^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	13	8.0%	84^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	13	19.7%	93^rd
1992 Apr-Jun	185	27	14.6%	87^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	56	28.6%	94^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	4	9.8%	73^rd

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