Rep. Dennis Cardoza

Former Representative from California's 18^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2003-2012	Representative	California's 18^th District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Cardoza was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Cardoza’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Cardoza to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112^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 2003 to Aug 2012, Cardoza missed 546 of 7,469 roll call votes, which is 7.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 2012. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2003 Jan-Mar	94	1	1.1%	37^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	1	0.4%	18^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	1	0.5%	19^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	4	2.6%	44^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	7	6.7%	66^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	1	0.5%	16^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	6	3.7%	55^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	5	5.6%	71^st
2005 Apr-Jun	272	5	1.8%	52^nd
2005 Jul-Sep	146	4	2.7%	63^rd
2005 Oct-Dec	163	2	1.2%	31^st
2006 Jan-Mar	81	2	2.5%	60^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	27	9.8%	95^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	3	1.9%	50^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	3	11.1%	80^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	6	2.8%	62^nd
2007 Apr-Jun	393	18	4.6%	79^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	7	2.2%	58^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	11	4.2%	64^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	11	7.4%	74^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	16	5.0%	70^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	7	3.4%	60^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	1	6.7%	79^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	5	2.9%	63^rd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	12	4.0%	71^st
2009 Jul-Sep	268	9	3.4%	72^nd
2009 Oct-Dec	246	23	9.3%	90^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	14	7.2%	81^st
2010 Apr-Jun	219	8	3.7%	59^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	3	2.0%	47^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	33	33.3%	97^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	2	0.9%	45^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	14	5.0%	85^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	22	8.9%	91^st
2011 Oct-Dec	208	31	14.9%	97^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	40	26.5%	98^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	114	38.1%	99^th
2012 Jul-Sep	105	67	63.8%	99^th