Rep. Barbara Kennelly

Former Representative from Connecticut's 1^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1981-1998	Representative	Connecticut's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Kennelly to other members of the House of Representatives in the 105^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 Feb 1982 to Dec 1998, Kennelly missed 309 of 8,674 roll call votes, which is 3.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1998. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	36^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	3	2.5%	30^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	4	2.1%	18^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	6	3.3%	28^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	11^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	2	1.4%	15^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	51^st
1984 Apr-Jun	223	16	7.2%	58^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	18^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	36^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	5	3.2%	38^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	56^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	3	2.0%	33^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	54^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	3	2.3%	40^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	5	2.5%	45^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	7	11.7%	79^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	43^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	184	14	7.6%	77^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	65^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	3	1.8%	16^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	6	3.9%	53^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	5	5.6%	66^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	46^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	3	2.3%	50^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	5	4.1%	55^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	1	0.5%	18^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	4	2.8%	46^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	2	1.4%	28^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	73^rd
1992 Apr-Jun	185	4	2.2%	36^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	42^nd
1993 Jan-Mar	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	24^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	46^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	72^nd
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	39^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	2	0.7%	36^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	1	0.5%	18^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	16^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	17	9.2%	92^nd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	1	0.9%	34^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	6	3.3%	62^nd
1996 Jul-Sep	163	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	1	0.6%	18^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	5	2.2%	53^rd
1997 Oct-Nov	163	3	1.8%	43^rd
1998 Jan-Mar	89	4	4.5%	68^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	6	3.2%	61^st
1998 Jul-Sep	199	57	28.6%	97^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	59	79.7%	100^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Barbara Kennelly [D-CT1, 1981-1998] leaves office as Representative for Connecticut's 1st congressional district

Dec 19, 1998

Elections and Offices

Rep. Barbara Kennelly [D-CT1, 1981-1998] takes office as Representative for Connecticut's 1st congressional district

Jan 05, 1981