Rep. Dale Milford

Former Representative for Texas’s 24^th District

Milford was the representative for Texas’s 24^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1973 to 1978.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Milford is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978 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 Milford sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Milford was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

H.R. 10101 (94th): An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt certain aircraft museums from Federal fuel taxes and the Federal tax on the use of …

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Does 1 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

Milford sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Transportation and Public Works (17%) Private Legislation (15%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Housing and Community Development (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Environmental Protection (12%) Taxation (8%) Law (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Milford recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1973 to Oct 1978, Milford missed 918 of 3,891 roll call votes, which is 23.6%. This is much worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. 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
1973 Jan-Mar	36	10	27.8%	91^st
1973 Apr-Jun	191	29	15.2%	79^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	41	31.3%	97^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	6	3.3%	25^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	12	15.2%	77^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	55	32.4%	96^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	15	10.1%	75^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	5	3.5%	20^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	38^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	27	13.6%	80^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	14	9.1%	68^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	38	19.9%	94^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	21^st
1976 Apr-Jun	267	139	52.1%	99^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	23	8.2%	58^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	71^st
1977 Jan-Mar	100	31	31.0%	97^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	113	41.4%	97^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	17	8.6%	63^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	135	19	14.1%	78^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	12	8.0%	48^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	117	39.0%	93^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	156	50.6%	95^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	33	43.4%	93^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
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