Rep. George O'Brien

Former Representative from Illinois's 4^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1986	Representative	Illinois's 4^th District
1973-1982	Representative	Illinois's 17^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare O'Brien to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^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 1973 to Jul 1986, O'Brien missed 978 of 7,432 roll call votes, which is 13.2%. This is worse than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	56^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	19	10.1%	64^th
1973 Jul-Sep	129	23	17.8%	89^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	17	9.4%	67^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	11	14.3%	74^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	2	1.2%	5^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	8	5.4%	55^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	8	5.7%	32^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	14	20.6%	94^th
1975 Apr-Jun	195	34	17.4%	93^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	146	7	4.8%	46^th
1975 Oct-Dec	188	19	10.1%	81^st
1976 Jan-Mar	105	10	9.5%	69^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	14	5.2%	31^st
1976 Jul-Sep	280	6	2.1%	21^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	4	4.0%	42^nd
1977 Apr-Jun	271	20	7.4%	55^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	11	5.6%	57^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	3	2.2%	27^th
1978 Jan-Mar	148	15	10.1%	72^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	293	47	16.0%	82^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	308	18	5.8%	43^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	74	2	2.7%	36^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	11	17.5%	84^th
1979 Apr-Jun	216	32	14.8%	87^th
1979 Jul-Sep	195	22	11.3%	77^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	23	12.5%	70^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	16	10.9%	66^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	25	12.9%	77^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	22	11.6%	73^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	63	49	77.8%	99^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	73^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	89	10	11.2%	73^rd
1981 Jul-Sep	104	9	8.7%	74^th
1981 Oct-Dec	136	18	13.2%	82^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	22	45.8%	97^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	9	7.6%	70^th
1982 Jul-Sep	186	38	20.4%	93^rd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	18	18.2%	81^st
1983 Jan-Mar	43	14	32.6%	99^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	11	6.0%	47^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	65^th
1983 Oct-Nov	137	36	26.3%	97^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	10	18.9%	88^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	11	5.0%	44^th
1984 Jul-Sep	94	5	5.3%	59^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	48^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	8	22.2%	93^rd
1985 Apr-Jun	151	22	14.6%	94^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	17	16.8%	95^th
1985 Oct-Dec	146	44	30.1%	99^th
1986 Jan-Mar	57	30	52.6%	98^th
1986 Apr-Jun	126	99	78.6%	99^th
1986 Jul-Sep	22	22	100.0%	100^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. George O'Brien [R-IL4, 1983-1986] leaves office as Representative for Illinois's 4th congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Rep. George O'Brien [R-IL4, 1983-1986] takes office as Representative for Illinois's 4th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. George O'Brien [R-IL4, 1983-1986] leaves office as Representative for Illinois's 17th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. George O'Brien [R-IL4, 1983-1986] takes office as Representative for Illinois's 17th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973