Douglas Owens, former Representative from Utah's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1987-1992	Representative	Utah's 2^nd District
1973-1974	Representative	Utah's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Owens was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Owens’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Owens to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd 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 Oct 1992, Owens missed 326 of 3,839 roll call votes, which is 8.5%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	35	6	17.1%	76^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	19	10.1%	65^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	19	14.6%	91^st
1973 Oct-Dec	178	9	5.1%	43^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	77	8	10.4%	58^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	14	8.3%	47^th
1974 Jul-Sep	146	43	29.5%	95^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	23	16.4%	80^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	5	12.8%	84^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	17	9.1%	81^st
1987 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	71^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	14	8.4%	68^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	43^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	13	8.1%	75^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	2	1.3%	17^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	10	9.5%	88^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	9	7.0%	86^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	16	13.2%	92^nd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	4	6.7%	74^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	11	7.3%	80^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	4	2.2%	40^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	50^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	12	8.6%	84^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	4	4.9%	56^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	6	3.7%	62^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	10	15.2%	90^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	11	5.9%	65^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	23	11.7%	82^nd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	60^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