Rep. Thomas Andrews
Former Representative for Maine’s 1st District
Andrews was the representative for Maine’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1991 to 1994.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Andrews 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 Andrews sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1989 to Nov 29, 1994. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Andrews was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 3059 (103rd): National Maritime Heritage Act of 1994
- H.J.Res. 380 (102nd): Designating the calendar year, 1993, as the “Year of American Craft: A Celebration of the Creative Work of the Hand”.
Does 2 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
Andrews sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Transportation and Public Works (19%) Commerce (14%) Education (14%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Taxation (10%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (10%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Andrews recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 4666 (103rd): American Shipbuilding Jobs Preservation Act
- H.R. 4640 (103rd): Gulf of Maine Act of 1994
- H.R. 3059 (103rd): National Maritime Heritage Act of 1994
- H.R. 2854 (103rd): National Women’s Business Council Reauthorization Act of 1993
- H.R. 2625 (103rd): For the relief of Olga D. Zhondetskaya.
- H.R. 1806 (103rd): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt transportation on …
- H.R. 1691 (103rd): National Health Security Act of 1993
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1991 to Nov 1994, Andrews missed 36 of 2,054 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is better 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
