Rep. Andrew “Andy” Ireland

Former Representative from Florida's 10^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1992	Representative	Florida's 10^th District
1977-1982	Representative	Florida's 8^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Ireland was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Ireland’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Ireland to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd 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 1977 to Oct 1992, Ireland missed 1,054 of 8,173 roll call votes, which is 12.9%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	99	4	4.0%	52^nd
1977 Apr-Jun	271	32	11.8%	82^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	1	0.5%	9^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	8	6.0%	57^th
1978 Jan-Mar	147	26	17.7%	90^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	20	6.7%	46^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	75	24.4%	90^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	31	41.3%	96^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	3	4.8%	65^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	28	12.8%	85^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	34	17.2%	90^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	52	27.5%	95^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	12	8.1%	50^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	9	4.6%	35^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	36	18.8%	91^st
1980 Oct-Dec	67	8	11.9%	59^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	17	19.1%	90^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	9	8.5%	75^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	22	15.5%	86^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	4	8.3%	60^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	9	7.6%	71^st
1982 Jul-Sep	193	78	40.4%	99^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	56	56.6%	99^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	15	8.2%	62^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	10	7.7%	79^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	13	9.1%	74^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	17	32.1%	96^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	27	12.1%	82^nd
1984 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	18^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	4	2.6%	31^st
1985 Jul-Sep	98	12	12.2%	91^st
1985 Oct-Dec	148	7	4.7%	59^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	5	8.2%	57^th
1986 Apr-Jun	126	6	4.8%	68^th
1986 Jul-Sep	200	17	8.5%	83^rd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	47^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	38^th
1987 Apr-Jun	184	17	9.2%	83^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	60^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	15	9.0%	72^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	5	10.2%	75^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	14	8.7%	79^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	8	5.3%	59^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	5	5.6%	66^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	5	4.8%	63^rd
1989 Jul-Sep	127	11	8.7%	93^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	18	14.9%	94^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	5	8.3%	81^st
1990 Apr-Jun	150	15	10.0%	87^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	14	7.7%	85^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	17	11.9%	91^st
1991 Jan-Mar	62	8	12.9%	91^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	8	5.8%	70^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	7	8.6%	76^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	12	7.4%	82^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	17	25.8%	95^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	43	23.2%	96^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	79	40.3%	97^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	15	36.6%	95^th

Primary Sources

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

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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. Andrew “Andy” Ireland [R-FL10, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 10th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Andrew “Andy” Ireland [R-FL10, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for Florida's 10th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Andrew “Andy” Ireland [R-FL10, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 8th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Andrew “Andy” Ireland [R-FL10, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for Florida's 8th congressional district

Jan 04, 1977