Rep. Bernice Sisk

Former Representative from California's 15^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1978	Representative	California's 15^th District
1963-1976	Representative	California's 16^th District
1961-1962	Representative	California's 12^th District
1959-1960	Representative	California's 12^th District
1957-1958	Representative	California's 12^th District
1955-1956	Representative	California's 12^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Sisk to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95^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 1955 to Oct 1978, Sisk missed 963 of 6,687 roll call votes, which is 14.4%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1955 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	26	2	7.7%	70^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	5	9.4%	58^th
1965 Jul-Sep	95	18	18.9%	89^th
1965 Oct-Oct	21	6	28.6%	90^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	5	16.7%	78^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	3	5.9%	33^rd
1966 Jul-Sep	69	13	18.8%	74^th
1966 Oct-Oct	33	22	66.7%	85^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1967 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	96	1	1.0%	83^rd
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	61^st
1968 Jul-Sep	83	8	9.6%	91^st
1968 Oct-Oct	25	5	20.0%	76^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	2	7.1%	43^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	43	10	23.3%	92^nd
1969 Oct-Dec	85	22	25.9%	90^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	4	11.4%	60^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	6	8.1%	20^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	13	17.1%	71^st
1970 Oct-Dec	81	6	7.4%	25^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	10	11.1%	47^th
1971 Jul-Sep	71	13	18.3%	83^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	131	27	20.6%	80^th
1972 Jan-Mar	60	9	15.0%	77^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	15	13.4%	58^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	57^th
1972 Oct-Oct	48	10	20.8%	68^th
1973 Jan-Mar	34	7	20.6%	85^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	26	13.8%	75^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	13	10.0%	75^th
1973 Oct-Dec	177	33	18.6%	87^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	4	5.2%	32^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	169	29	17.2%	82^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	144	16	11.1%	81^st
1974 Oct-Dec	140	8	5.7%	35^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	30^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	7	3.5%	35^th
1975 Jul-Sep	132	32	24.2%	96^th
1975 Oct-Dec	166	53	31.9%	98^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	17	16.2%	88^th
1976 Apr-Jun	264	34	12.9%	72^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	275	86	31.3%	96^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	97	16	16.5%	89^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	47	17.3%	88^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	33	16.8%	87^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	18	13.4%	81^st
1978 Jan-Mar	149	17	11.4%	69^th
1978 Apr-Jun	297	56	18.9%	82^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	304	130	42.8%	95^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	32	42.7%	92^nd

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. Bernice Sisk [D-CA15, 1977-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 15th congressional district

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Rep. Bernice Sisk [D-CA15, 1977-1978] takes office as Representative for California's 15th congressional district

Jan 04, 1977

Elections and Offices

Rep. Bernice Sisk [D-CA15, 1977-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 16th congressional district

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Rep. Bernice Sisk [D-CA15, 1977-1978] takes office as Representative for California's 16th congressional district

Jan 09, 1963

Elections and Offices

Rep. Bernice Sisk [D-CA15, 1977-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 12th congressional district

Oct 13, 1962