Rep. Abraham Kazen Jr.

Former Representative from Texas's 23^rd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1967-1984	Representative	Texas's 23^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Kazen was a centrist Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Kazen’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Kazen to other members of the House of Representatives in the 98^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1967 to Oct 1984, Kazen missed 506 of 8,409 roll call votes, which is 6.0%. This is better than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	2	3.4%	96^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	6	6.1%	99^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	1	2.6%	85^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	1	1.1%	23^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	3	4.1%	14^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	1	1.3%	11^th
1970 Oct-Dec	80	6	7.5%	29^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	3	3.3%	15^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Oct-Dec	132	7	5.3%	34^th
1972 Jan-Mar	63	3	4.8%	39^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	19	16.8%	71^st
1972 Jul-Sep	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	29	15.3%	85^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	22^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	168	57	33.9%	97^th
1974 Jul-Sep	147	2	1.4%	21^st
1974 Oct-Dec	141	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	3	1.5%	12^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	3	2.9%	41^st
1976 Apr-Jun	267	8	3.0%	17^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	1	0.4%	4^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	3	3.0%	40^th
1977 Apr-Jun	271	5	1.8%	21^st
1977 Jul-Sep	198	1	0.5%	9^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	4	3.0%	35^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	19	12.8%	82^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	295	78	26.4%	93^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	11	3.6%	26^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	6	2.7%	21^st
1979 Jul-Sep	198	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	32	21.6%	89^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	61	31.1%	97^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	2	1.0%	10^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	1	1.1%	7^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	1	0.9%	16^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	2	1.4%	12^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	16^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	18	9.9%	68^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	10	7.0%	55^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	17	32.1%	95^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	74	33.3%	97^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	36^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

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

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Abraham Kazen [D-TX23, 1967-1984] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 23rd congressional district

Oct 12, 1984

Elections and Offices

Rep. Abraham Kazen [D-TX23, 1967-1984] takes office as Representative for Texas's 23rd congressional district

Jan 10, 1967