Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Gillmor is shown as a purple triangle▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below.Each dot was a member of the House of Representativesin 2008positioned 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 cosponsoredfrom Jan. 7, 2003 to Dec. 10, 2008.See fullanalysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Gillmor was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 4637 (109th): To make certain technical corrections in amendments made by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
• H.R. 985 (108th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 111 West Washington Street in Bowling Green, Ohio, as the “Delbert L. Latta Post Office …
• H.R. 2869 (107th): Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act
• H.R. 678 (105th): Thomas Alva Edison Commemorative Coin Act

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Does 4 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

Gillmor sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (23%)Commerce (14%)Law (14%)Economics and Public Finance (13%)Finance and Financial Sector (10%)Science, Technology, Communications (10%)Crime and Law Enforcement (8%)Families (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Gillmor recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.Res. 440 (110th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any comprehensive plan …
• H.R. 1341 (110th): Honest Income Disclosure Act
• H.R. 1221 (110th): EARN Act
• H.R. 1208 (110th): Corporate Charitable Disclosure Act of 2007
• H.R. 870 (110th): To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide liability protections for …
• H.R. 738 (110th): For the relief of Manuel Bartsch.
• H.R. 698 (110th): Industrial Bank Holding Company Act of 2007

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1989 to Sep 2007, Gillmor missed 392 of 10,974 roll call votes, which is 3.6%.This ison par withthe median of 3.1%among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 2007.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 originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• TheHouse andSenate 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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills