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U.S. Representative, Georgia 2nd district · Democrat

Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.

676 recorded votes of the 119th Congress.

676 recorded votes

  • Voted for31045.9%
  • Voted against34951.6%
  • Did not vote131.9%
97.5%
of the votes they could cast
0
statements indexed

Turned up for 97.5% of the votes they could have cast, level with the middle of the House, which is 97.5%.

In plain English

Jr. voted 98 times out of every 100 they could. That is the same as the middle of the House, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Pablo José Hernández more than anyone else. The two agreed 96 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with James C. Moylan. They agreed 68 times out of 100.

First took office
January 5, 1993
Terms served
17 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
Born
February 4, 1947

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

Measures that reached a final vote, grouped by subject. A yes here means pass the thing, which is why the count leaves out motions to recommit, to table and to proceed: on those a no can be support. Which subject a measure belongs to is this site's reading, and every measure in every subject is listed. A subject below links to its own measures.

Voting With Their Party

On the 471 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. voted on 462 and was with the Democrat majority on 430 of them.

462 party line votes cast

  • With their party43093.1%
  • Against their party326.9%

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. as speaking in 87 items of business across 57 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 676 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Clerk of the House lists Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 676 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other Georgia representatives in this Congress: Earl L. "Buddy" Carter and Brian Jack.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.