Rep. Esteban Torres

Former Representative from California's 34^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1998	Representative	California's 34^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Torres was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Torres’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Torres to other members of the House of Representatives in the 105^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 1983 to Dec 1998, Torres missed 685 of 8,211 roll call votes, which is 8.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1998. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	7	16.3%	82^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	24	13.2%	83^rd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	11^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	18	12.6%	87^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	24^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	10	4.5%	40^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	12	12.6%	85^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	78^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	15	9.7%	83^rd
1985 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	77^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	6	4.1%	54^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	7	11.5%	76^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	6	4.7%	65^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	10	5.0%	65^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	48^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	62^nd
1987 Apr-Jun	183	35	19.1%	96^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	65^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	8	4.8%	37^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	60^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	15	9.3%	85^th
1988 Jul-Sep	149	7	4.7%	63^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	3	3.4%	58^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	14	13.3%	96^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	9	7.0%	88^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	5	4.1%	55^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	28^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	10	5.5%	74^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	5	3.5%	55^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	12	19.4%	97^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	10	7.2%	82^nd
1991 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	34^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	39^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	7	10.6%	86^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	28	15.1%	94^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	13	6.6%	76^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	6	14.6%	87^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	13	10.2%	93^rd
1993 Apr-Jun	190	18	9.5%	87^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	19	11.6%	97^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	8	6.0%	86^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	8	8.4%	84^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	18	8.2%	90^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	1	0.7%	19^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	4	7.8%	86^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	14	5.0%	87^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	41	21.7%	99^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	11	4.7%	80^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	7	3.8%	71^st
1996 Jan-Mar	110	5	4.5%	74^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	16	8.8%	92^nd
1996 Jul-Sep	163	4	2.5%	57^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	14	19.7%	98^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	15	8.6%	91^st
1997 Jul-Sep	232	20	8.6%	93^rd
1997 Oct-Nov	163	6	3.7%	62^nd
1998 Jan-Mar	89	15	16.9%	94^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	49	26.5%	98^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	27	13.6%	94^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	14	18.9%	96^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. Esteban Torres [D-CA34, 1983-1998] leaves office as Representative for California's 34th congressional district

Dec 19, 1998

Elections and Offices

Rep. Esteban Torres [D-CA34, 1983-1998] takes office as Representative for California's 34th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983