Charles Goodell, former Senator from New York

Dates	Title	Representing
1968-1971	Senator	New York
1963-1966	Representative	New York's 38^th District
1961-1962	Representative	New York's 43^rd District
1959-1960	Representative	New York's 43^rd District

Voting Record

From Sep 1968 to Dec 1970, Goodell missed 128 of 631 roll call votes, which is 20.3%. This is worse than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1970. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1968 Jul-Sep	21	9	42.9%	91^st
1968 Oct-Oct	26	4	15.4%	48^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	70^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	5	20.8%	80^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	27^th
1969 Oct-Dec	141	19	13.5%	59^th
1970 Jan-Mar	90	6	6.7%	34^th
1970 Apr-Jun	83	18	21.7%	77^th
1970 Jul-Sep	109	31	28.4%	69^th
1970 Oct-Dec	77	34	44.2%	79^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