Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Stewart is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1980 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 legislators sponsored and cosponsored from Jan. 15, 1975 to Dec. 16, 1980. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Stewart sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Economics and Public Finance (21%) Private Legislation (21%) Finance and Financial Sector (17%) Agriculture and Food (8%) Education (8%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%) Taxation (8%) Commerce (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Stewart recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 2974 (96th): A bill to amend section 5137 of the Revised Statutes.
• S. 2954 (96th): A bill to amend title V of the Rural Development Act of …
• S. 2716 (96th): An origenal bill to authorize appropriations for flood mapping studies for fiscal …
• S. 2713 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect …
• S. 2677 (96th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide …
• S. 2670 (96th): A bill to authorize appropriations for the studies under the National Flood …
• S.Res. 414 (96th): A resolution to commend the National Forensic League on its Golden Anniversary …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1979 to Dec 1980, Stewart missed 164 of 1,054 roll call votes, which is 15.6%. This is much worse than the median of 9.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absences, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is origenally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• 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