Rep. Edward Derwinski
Former Representative from Illinois's 4th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Illinois's 4th District | |
| Representative | Illinois's 4th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Derwinski was a far-right Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Derwinski’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Derwinski to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97th 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
Some of Derwinski’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5471 (97th): Debt Collection Act of 1982
- H.R. 5400 (97th): Social Security Alien and Foreign Resident Limitations Act of 1981
- H.R. 5386 (97th): Hatters Fur Tariff Act of 1982
- H.R. 5038 (97th): Air Traffic Control Revitalization Act of 1981
- H.J.Res. 362 (97th): A joint resolution to clarify and reaffirm that it is the basic ...
- H.Con.Res. 218 (97th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to ...
- H.Con.Res. 157 (97th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Executive Branch ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1959 to Dec 1982, Derwinski missed 727 of 8,435 roll call votes, which is 8.6%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills