Dennis “Denny” Smith, former Representative from Oregon's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1990	Representative	Oregon's 5^th District
1981-1982	Representative	Oregon's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Smith to other members of the House of Representatives in the 101^st 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 1981 to Oct 1990, Smith missed 384 of 4,415 roll call votes, which is 8.7%. This is worse than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1990. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	3	3.4%	27^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	7	5.0%	45^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	76^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	2	1.7%	23^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	21	10.9%	79^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	5	5.1%	35^th
1983 Jan-Mar	41	13	31.7%	98^th
1983 Apr-Jun	178	18	10.1%	71^st
1983 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	50^th
1983 Oct-Nov	139	22	15.8%	92^nd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	23^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	221	23	10.4%	76^th
1984 Jul-Sep	92	10	10.9%	82^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	47^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	52^nd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	8	5.2%	56^th
1985 Jul-Sep	100	4	4.0%	57^th
1985 Oct-Dec	145	5	3.4%	52^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	14	23.0%	94^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	6	4.7%	61^st
1986 Jul-Sep	201	6	3.0%	47^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	6	15.4%	87^th
1987 Apr-Jun	186	11	5.9%	65^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	8	4.8%	36^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	27^th
1988 Apr-Jun	159	9	5.7%	65^th
1988 Jul-Sep	150	6	4.0%	51^st
1988 Oct-Oct	89	17	19.1%	93^rd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	3	21.4%	94^th
1989 Apr-Jun	103	7	6.8%	79^th
1989 Jul-Sep	126	3	2.4%	53^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	117	24	20.5%	96^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	23	38.3%	99^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	14	9.3%	83^rd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	41	22.4%	96^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	25	17.5%	94^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills