Rep. Eligio “Kika” de la Garza

Former Representative from Texas's 15^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1965-1996	Representative	Texas's 15^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

de la Garza was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from de la Garza’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare de la Garza to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104^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 1965 to Sep 1996, de la Garza missed 1,733 of 14,904 roll call votes, which is 11.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1965 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	31^st
1965 Apr-Jun	53	2	3.8%	15^th
1965 Jul-Sep	97	1	1.0%	38^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	1	4.5%	38^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	5	16.7%	77^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	16	31.4%	85^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	2	2.8%	15^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	2	5.1%	31^st
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	5	8.5%	94^th
1967 Oct-Dec	96	4	4.2%	94^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	2	5.3%	94^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	3	3.3%	72^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	5	18.5%	80^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	6	13.3%	75^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	17	19.3%	76^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	4	11.4%	48^th
1970 Apr-Jun	73	17	23.3%	67^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	14	18.4%	71^st
1970 Oct-Dec	79	30	38.0%	90^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	40^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	5	5.6%	28^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	24	33.3%	96^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	14	10.5%	40^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	8	12.5%	48^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	22	19.5%	68^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	56^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	1	2.0%	19^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	9	25.0%	80^th
1973 Apr-Jun	186	21	11.3%	79^th
1973 Jul-Sep	129	6	4.7%	60^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	10	5.6%	43^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	76	2	2.6%	26^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	28	16.7%	79^th
1974 Jul-Sep	145	46	31.7%	93^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	139	30	21.6%	93^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	65	9	13.8%	86^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	17	8.6%	69^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	13	8.9%	66^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	9	4.7%	51^st
1976 Jan-Mar	105	11	10.5%	71^st
1976 Apr-Jun	258	78	30.2%	95^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	53	19.0%	88^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	4	4.0%	44^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	8	2.9%	27^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	8	4.0%	42^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	134	6	4.5%	47^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	14	9.4%	61^st
1978 Apr-Jun	300	41	13.7%	68^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	38	12.3%	66^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	17	27.4%	89^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	26	11.9%	78^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	29	14.6%	84^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	53	27.9%	96^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	13	8.8%	53^rd
1980 Apr-Jun	196	5	2.6%	23^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	191	35	18.3%	89^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	2	3.0%	18^th
1981 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	71^st
1981 Apr-Jun	89	8	9.0%	72^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	19	17.9%	94^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	41^st
1982 Feb-Mar	47	13	27.7%	92^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	3	2.5%	35^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	27	14.0%	85^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	22	22.2%	89^th
1983 Jan-Mar	42	7	16.7%	87^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	27	14.8%	87^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	66^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	29	20.3%	96^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	16	30.2%	96^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	27	12.1%	81^st
1984 Jul-Sep	95	9	9.5%	78^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	6	16.7%	82^nd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	13	36.1%	98^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	11	7.1%	72^nd
1985 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	80^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	15	10.1%	91^st
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	89^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	22	17.2%	97^th
1986 Jul-Sep	200	18	9.0%	85^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	13	21.7%	94^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	58^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	17	9.1%	83^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	15	15.8%	92^nd
1987 Oct-Dec	166	13	7.8%	67^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	8	16.3%	87^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	35	21.7%	96^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	28	18.4%	93^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	5	5.6%	66^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	54^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	7	6.7%	77^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	9	7.0%	87^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	15	12.4%	92^nd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	34^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	26	17.3%	95^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	48^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	10	7.0%	74^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	12	19.4%	96^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	11	7.9%	84^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	9	11.1%	86^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	13	8.0%	87^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	18	27.3%	98^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	17	9.2%	83^rd
1992 Jul-Sep	196	3	1.5%	35^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	3	2.4%	50^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	19	10.0%	87^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	13	7.9%	91^st
1993 Oct-Nov	134	6	4.5%	78^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	32	33.7%	99^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	11	5.0%	77^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	4	2.8%	50^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	24	8.6%	94^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	9	4.8%	75^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	9	3.9%	72^nd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	17	9.2%	89^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	23	20.9%	95^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	39	21.4%	97^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	39	23.9%	97^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Eligio “Kika” de la Garza [D-TX15, 1965-1996] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 15th congressional district

Oct 04, 1996

Elections and Offices

Rep. Eligio “Kika” de la Garza [D-TX15, 1965-1996] takes office as Representative for Texas's 15th congressional district

Jan 04, 1965