Clair Burgener, former Representative from California's 43rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1982	Representative	California's 43^rd District
1973-1974	Representative	California's 42^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Burgener was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Burgener’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Burgener to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^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 1973 to Dec 1982, Burgener missed 537 of 5,912 roll call votes, which is 9.1%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	26^th
1973 Apr-Jun	187	12	6.4%	45^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	59^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	22	12.2%	78^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	12^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	18	10.7%	54^th
1974 Jul-Sep	147	11	7.5%	71^st
1974 Oct-Dec	141	17	12.1%	64^th
1975 Jan-Mar	67	2	3.0%	39^th
1975 Apr-Jun	197	6	3.0%	33^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	145	5	3.4%	39^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	5	2.6%	30^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	5	4.7%	46^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	20	7.5%	48^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	20	7.2%	59^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	5	5.1%	51^st
1977 Apr-Jun	262	63	24.0%	97^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	4	2.0%	23^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	134	6	4.5%	42^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	147	9	6.1%	46^th
1978 Apr-Jun	296	24	8.1%	57^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	16	5.2%	37^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	37^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	13	5.9%	46^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	9^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	12	6.3%	37^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	24	16.3%	82^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	193	25	13.0%	77^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	10	5.2%	39^th
1980 Oct-Dec	64	11	17.2%	72^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	73^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	89	10	11.2%	71^st
1981 Jul-Sep	104	13	12.5%	84^th
1981 Oct-Dec	140	16	11.4%	74^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	11	22.9%	84^th
1982 Apr-Jun	117	26	22.2%	91^st
1982 Jul-Sep	191	46	24.1%	90^th
1982 Oct-Dec	98	33	33.7%	90^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills