Brian Donnelly, former Representative from Massachusetts's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1979-1992	Representative	Massachusetts's 11^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Donnelly 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 1979 to Oct 1992, Donnelly missed 566 of 6,643 roll call votes, which is 8.5%. 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
1979 Jan-Mar	63	12	19.0%	87^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	18^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	9	4.6%	44^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	17	8.9%	49^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	14	9.5%	57^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	30	15.4%	86^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	26	13.5%	79^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	9	13.4%	64^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	20	22.5%	93^rd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	8	7.5%	70^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	17	12.1%	79^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	27^th
1982 Apr-Jun	118	9	7.6%	72^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	12	6.2%	56^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	7	7.1%	47^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	10	23.3%	94^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	2	1.1%	11^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	12^th
1983 Oct-Nov	142	6	4.2%	46^th
1984 Jan-Mar	52	12	23.1%	92^nd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	18	8.1%	64^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	63^rd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	49^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	77^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	4	2.6%	31^st
1985 Jul-Sep	100	6	6.0%	69^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	1	0.7%	11^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	10	16.4%	82^nd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	12	9.4%	86^th
1986 Jul-Sep	200	12	6.0%	71^st
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	34^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	7	17.9%	91^st
1987 Apr-Jun	187	18	9.6%	84^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	42^nd
1987 Oct-Dec	167	15	9.0%	72^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	43^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	160	11	6.9%	71^st
1988 Jul-Sep	152	7	4.6%	54^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	50	56.2%	99^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	42^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	127	11	8.7%	93^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	6	5.0%	60^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	8	13.3%	90^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	10	6.7%	77^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	11	6.0%	77^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	11	7.7%	75^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	17	27.4%	98^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	2	1.4%	25^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	12^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	35^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	10	15.2%	90^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	22	11.9%	83^rd
1992 Jul-Sep	196	34	17.3%	89^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	60^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. Brian Donnelly [D-MA11, 1979-1992] leaves office as Representative for Massachusetts's 11th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Brian Donnelly [D-MA11, 1979-1992] takes office as Representative for Massachusetts's 11th congressional district

Jan 15, 1979

Rep. Brian Donnelly

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices