Rep. Carl Pursell

Former Representative from Michigan's 2^nd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1992	Representative	Michigan's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Pursell 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 1977 to Oct 1992, Pursell missed 993 of 8,160 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. 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
1977 Jan-Mar	99	17	17.2%	89^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	35	12.9%	84^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	33	16.7%	91^st
1977 Oct-Dec	132	28	21.2%	97^th
1978 Jan-Mar	148	23	15.5%	86^th
1978 Apr-Jun	298	59	19.8%	85^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	42	13.6%	75^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	5	6.7%	59^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	21	33.9%	96^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	24	11.0%	78^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	27	13.6%	83^rd
1979 Oct-Dec	189	21	11.1%	63^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	33	22.3%	91^st
1980 Apr-Jun	195	27	13.8%	81^st
1980 Jul-Sep	187	20	10.7%	71^st
1980 Oct-Dec	65	15	23.1%	83^rd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	4	26.7%	92^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	88	16	18.2%	90^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	7	6.6%	65^th
1981 Oct-Dec	140	11	7.9%	63^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	25	52.1%	98^th
1982 Apr-Jun	118	12	10.2%	82^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	192	44	22.9%	96^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	43	43.4%	97^th
1983 Jan-Mar	42	12	28.6%	98^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	30	16.6%	92^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	129	5	3.9%	60^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	12	8.4%	68^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	12	22.6%	91^st
1984 Apr-Jun	221	21	9.5%	71^st
1984 Jul-Sep	95	10	10.5%	81^st
1984 Oct-Oct	35	15	42.9%	97^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	6	16.7%	84^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	7	4.5%	48^th
1985 Jul-Sep	100	15	15.0%	96^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	10	6.8%	73^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	6	9.8%	63^rd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	3	2.3%	38^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	6	3.0%	48^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	47^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	22	11.8%	88^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	4	4.3%	67^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	21	12.6%	88^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	4	8.2%	68^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	11	6.8%	70^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	5	3.3%	41^st
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	5	4.8%	63^rd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	8	6.3%	81^st
1989 Oct-Nov	121	9	7.4%	73^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	3	5.0%	67^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	17	11.3%	89^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	17	9.3%	89^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	19	13.3%	93^rd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	4	6.5%	75^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	13	9.4%	86^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	12	14.8%	89^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	5	3.1%	56^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	9	13.6%	88^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	20	10.8%	81^st
1992 Jul-Sep	196	15	7.7%	74^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	6	14.6%	83^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. Carl Pursell [R-MI2, 1977-1992] leaves office as Representative for Michigan's 2nd congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Carl Pursell [R-MI2, 1977-1992] takes office as Representative for Michigan's 2nd congressional district

Jan 04, 1977