Cecil Heftel, former Representative from Hawaii's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1986	Representative	Hawaii's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Heftel to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^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 1977 to Jun 1986, Heftel missed 1,079 of 5,126 roll call votes, which is 21.0%. This is worse than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	99	14	14.1%	87^th
1977 Apr-Jun	265	52	19.6%	94^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	6	3.0%	33^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	134	3	2.2%	27^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	9	6.0%	44^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	14	4.7%	34^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	16	5.2%	38^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	37^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	11	17.7%	86^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	22	10.0%	71^st
1979 Jul-Sep	198	14	7.1%	61^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	41	21.6%	89^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	14	9.5%	55^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	20	10.2%	63^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	29	15.1%	83^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	24	35.8%	95^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	47^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	8	9.0%	66^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	16	15.1%	90^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	15	10.6%	71^st
1982 Feb-Mar	48	11	22.9%	85^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	20	16.8%	91^st
1982 Jul-Sep	193	38	19.7%	92^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	22	22.2%	90^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	15	34.9%	99^th
1983 Apr-Jun	172	135	78.5%	99^th
1983 Jul-Sep	127	127	100.0%	100^th
1983 Oct-Nov	142	38	26.8%	97^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	53	100.0%	100^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	80	35.9%	99^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	23	24.2%	96^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	14	38.9%	96^th
1985 Jan-Mar	35	18	51.4%	100^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	27	17.5%	96^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	28	27.7%	99^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	36	24.3%	98^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	86^th
1986 Apr-Jun	125	49	39.2%	98^th

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. Cecil Heftel [D-HI1, 1977-1986] leaves office as Representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Rep. Cecil Heftel [D-HI1, 1977-1986] takes office as Representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district

Jan 04, 1977

Rep. Cecil Heftel

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices