Frederick Grandy, former Representative from Iowa's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1993-1994	Representative	Iowa's 5^th District
1987-1992	Representative	Iowa's 6^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Grandy 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 1987 to Nov 1994, Grandy missed 268 of 3,897 roll call votes, which is 6.9%. 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
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	39^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	24^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	7	4.2%	32^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	28^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	38	42.7%	97^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	1	0.8%	13^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	18^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	1	0.5%	17^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	2	1.4%	29^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	12^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	1	1.5%	32^nd
1992 Apr-Jun	185	11	5.9%	74^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	5	12.2%	84^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	2	1.6%	38^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	2	1.1%	21^st
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	22^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	43^rd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	35	36.8%	99^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	135	61.6%	100^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	11	7.7%	78^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	9	17.6%	92^nd

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