Anthony Coelho, former Representative from California's 15th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1979-1989	Representative	California's 15^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Coelho was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Coelho’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Coelho to other members of the House of Representatives in the 101^st 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 1979 to Jun 1989, Coelho missed 482 of 4,895 roll call votes, which is 9.8%. This is worse than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1989. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	4	6.3%	68^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	15	6.8%	54^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	6	3.0%	32^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	189	59	31.2%	98^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	22	14.9%	77^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	21	10.7%	67^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	17	8.9%	63^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	19	28.4%	90^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	75^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	3	3.4%	27^th
1981 Jul-Sep	105	4	3.8%	49^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	11	7.7%	62^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	76^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	6	5.0%	57^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	18	9.3%	70^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	59^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	26	14.3%	88^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	17	13.1%	94^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	20	14.0%	89^th
1984 Jan-Mar	52	6	11.5%	76^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	33	14.8%	88^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	47^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	7	19.4%	88^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	52^nd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	14	9.1%	80^th
1985 Jul-Sep	100	10	10.0%	85^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	7	4.7%	58^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	10	16.4%	81^st
1986 Apr-Jun	128	6	4.7%	61^st
1986 Jul-Sep	200	27	13.5%	94^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	6	3.2%	40^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	40^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	29	17.4%	94^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	56^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	4	2.5%	37^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	3	2.0%	26^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	10	11.2%	82^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	72	9	12.5%	93^rd

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Anthony Coelho [D-CA15, 1979-1989] leaves office as Representative for California's 15th congressional district

Jun 15, 1989

Elections and Offices

Rep. Anthony Coelho [D-CA15, 1979-1989] takes office as Representative for California's 15th congressional district

Jan 15, 1979

Rep. Anthony Coelho

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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