Garry Brown, former Representative from Michigan's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1967-1978	Representative	Michigan's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Brown to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95^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 1967 to Oct 1978, Brown missed 474 of 5,412 roll call votes, which is 8.8%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	2	2.2%	46^th
1968 Oct-Oct	24	3	12.5%	66^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	79^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	3	10.7%	57^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	4	8.9%	51^st
1969 Oct-Dec	87	6	6.9%	34^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	4	11.4%	60^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	21	28.4%	85^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	17	22.4%	81^st
1970 Oct-Dec	81	23	28.4%	80^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	11	12.2%	50^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	1	1.4%	11^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	7	5.3%	25^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	12	18.8%	84^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	8	7.1%	36^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	13	12.9%	67^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	186	32	17.2%	84^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	12	9.2%	73^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	179	24	13.4%	80^th
1974 Jan-Mar	76	9	11.8%	69^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	15	8.9%	47^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	4	2.7%	26^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	29	20.6%	87^th
1975 Jan-Mar	67	12	17.9%	91^st
1975 Apr-Jun	199	6	3.0%	28^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	7	4.8%	45^th
1975 Oct-Dec	189	2	1.1%	17^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	12	11.4%	79^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	25	9.4%	56^th
1976 Jul-Sep	276	22	8.0%	63^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	8	8.1%	67^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	25	9.2%	66^th
1977 Jul-Sep	197	14	7.1%	59^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	8	6.0%	49^th
1978 Jan-Mar	148	16	10.8%	66^th
1978 Apr-Jun	297	23	7.7%	49^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	21	6.8%	43^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	74	10	13.5%	76^th

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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Garry Brown [R-MI3, 1967-1978] leaves office as Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Rep. Garry Brown [R-MI3, 1967-1978] takes office as Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district

Jan 10, 1967

Rep. Garry Brown

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices