Rep. Anthony Beilenson

Former Representative from California's 24^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1993-1996	Representative	California's 24^th District
1977-1992	Representative	California's 23^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Beilenson to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104^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 1977 to Sep 1996, Beilenson missed 659 of 10,634 roll call votes, which is 6.2%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	98	13	13.3%	84^th
1977 Apr-Jun	271	21	7.7%	55^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	26	13.1%	82^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	128	18	14.1%	85^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	12	8.1%	55^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	57	19.0%	78^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	47	15.3%	80^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	2	2.7%	24^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	9	14.3%	81^st
1979 Apr-Jun	220	22	10.0%	74^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	12	6.1%	57^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	13	6.8%	34^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	5	3.4%	20^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	16	8.2%	53^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	190	14	7.4%	57^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	16	23.9%	77^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	7	7.9%	66^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	11	10.4%	81^st
1981 Oct-Dec	141	15	10.6%	75^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	1	0.8%	12^th
1982 Jul-Sep	191	16	8.4%	75^th
1982 Oct-Dec	98	31	31.6%	97^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	4	9.3%	62^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	41^st
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	10^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	4	2.8%	27^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	5	2.2%	24^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	9	9.5%	78^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	46^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	76^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	17	11.0%	87^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	76^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	2	1.4%	26^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	30^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	5	3.9%	55^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	6	3.0%	50^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	38	4	10.5%	83^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	9	4.8%	57^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	10	10.5%	84^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	11	6.6%	56^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	4	8.2%	69^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	10	6.2%	65^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	9	5.9%	65^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	10	11.2%	83^rd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	54^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	7	6.7%	77^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	12	9.4%	93^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	1	0.8%	14^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	58^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	11	7.3%	81^st
1990 Jul-Sep	183	3	1.6%	37^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	5	3.5%	53^rd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	52^nd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	6	4.3%	62^nd
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	49^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	37^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	20	10.8%	88^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	3	1.5%	35^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	7	17.1%	91^st
1993 Jan-Mar	127	2	1.6%	39^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	4	2.1%	42^nd
1993 Jul-Sep	164	2	1.2%	36^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	12	9.0%	93^rd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	3	2.1%	41^st
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	5	2.7%	57^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	4	3.6%	61^st
1996 Apr-Jun	182	7	3.8%	66^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	4	2.5%	53^rd

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Anthony Beilenson [D-CA24, 1993-1996] leaves office as Representative for California's 24th congressional district

Oct 04, 1996

Elections and Offices

Rep. Anthony Beilenson [D-CA24, 1993-1996] takes office as Representative for California's 24th congressional district

Jan 05, 1993

Elections and Offices

Rep. Anthony Beilenson [D-CA24, 1993-1996] leaves office as Representative for California's 23rd congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Anthony Beilenson [D-CA24, 1993-1996] takes office as Representative for California's 23rd congressional district

Jan 04, 1977