Rep. Dana Rohrabacher

District:: California - District 48
Party:: Republican

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2013-2015	Representative	California's 48^th District
2003-2013	Representative	California's 46^th District
1993-2002	Representative	California's 45^th District
1989-1992	Representative	California's 42^nd District

Track Him

Official Website: http://www.house.gov/rohrabacher

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Sponsorship Analysis

Rohrabacher is a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

Use this chart to compare Rohrabacher to other members of the House of Representatives on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Dana Rohrabacher sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
- Member, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- Member, Subcommittee on Environment
- Member, Subcommittee on Space

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Rohrabacher’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1989 to May 2013, Rohrabacher missed 466 of 15,427 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	4	3.8%	57^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	40^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	4	2.2%	48^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	42^nd
1991 Oct-Nov	162	2	1.2%	24^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	69^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	3	1.6%	36^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	1	0.5%	16^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	1	0.8%	25^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	1	1.1%	18^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	3	2.1%	42^nd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	45^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	20^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	7	3.8%	68^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	3	1.8%	45^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	40^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	1	0.6%	18^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	2	0.9%	29^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	2	1.2%	33^rd
1998 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	4	2.2%	50^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	1	0.5%	19^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	2	1.1%	30^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	6	6.3%	66^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	1	0.4%	14^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	2	2.0%	17^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	2	2.7%	54^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	1	0.7%	20^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	1	0.7%	23^rd
2001 Oct-Dec	153	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	3	3.8%	66^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	1	0.5%	14^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	4	2.8%	54^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	4	1.7%	47^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	6	3.1%	70^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	1	0.7%	24^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	3	2.9%	43^rd
2004 Apr-Jun	221	15	6.8%	82^nd
2004 Jul-Sep	161	6	3.7%	54^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	8	8.9%	88^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	2	0.7%	26^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	3	1.8%	36^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	3	3.7%	70^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	3	1.1%	26^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	5	2.3%	60^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	20	5.1%	84^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	6	1.9%	51^st
2007 Oct-Dec	263	19	7.2%	82^nd
2008 Jan-Mar	149	18	12.1%	87^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	30	9.3%	87^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	15	7.3%	84^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	7	46.7%	96^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	18	10.3%	94^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	20	6.6%	85^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	23	8.6%	93^rd
2009 Oct-Dec	246	21	8.5%	88^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	11	5.6%	74^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	14	6.4%	79^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	9	6.0%	82^nd
2010 Nov-Dec	99	5	5.1%	61^st
2011 Jan-Mar	212	4	1.9%	66^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	8	2.8%	71^st
2011 Jul-Sep	247	8	3.2%	76^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	9	4.3%	73^rd
2012 Jan-Mar	151	10	6.6%	84^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	13	4.3%	76^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	10	6.6%	87^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	9	17.6%	94^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	10	11.2%	90^th
2013 Apr-May	71	16	22.5%	98^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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills