Rep. Earl Hutto

Former Representative from Florida's 1^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1979-1994	Representative	Florida's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Hutto to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103^rd 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 1979 to Nov 1994, Hutto missed 348 of 7,773 roll call votes, which is 4.5%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	15	23.8%	90^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	9	4.1%	32^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	197	13	6.6%	62^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	188	19	10.1%	57^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	12	8.1%	52^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	196	8	4.1%	36^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	14	7.3%	55^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	1	1.5%	8^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	43^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	89	4	4.5%	43^rd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	51^st
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	42^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	6	12.5%	71^st
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	45^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	5	2.6%	28^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	4	4.0%	34^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	17	9.3%	68^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	38^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	5	3.5%	38^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	10	4.5%	40^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	42^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	30^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	40^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	6	3.9%	45^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	3	3.0%	44^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	1	0.7%	12^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	90^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	1	0.8%	15^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	1	0.5%	11^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	36^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	61^st
1987 Apr-Jun	187	9	4.8%	59^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	55^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	5	3.0%	22^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	6	3.7%	51^st
1988 Jul-Sep	152	10	6.6%	70^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	45^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	19^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	9	7.4%	77^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	56^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	14	9.3%	86^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	4	2.2%	43^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	40^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	48^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	7	8.6%	80^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	4	2.5%	52^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	10	15.2%	94^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	10	5.4%	70^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	1	0.5%	12^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	44^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	5	3.9%	67^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	8	4.2%	65^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	3	1.8%	49^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	4	3.0%	65^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	59^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	34^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	17	12.0%	88^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	2	3.9%	63^rd

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Earl Hutto [D-FL1, 1979-1994] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 1st congressional district

Dec 01, 1994

Elections and Offices

Rep. Earl Hutto [D-FL1, 1979-1994] takes office as Representative for Florida's 1st congressional district

Jan 15, 1979