George Wortley, former Representative from New York's 27th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1988	Representative	New York's 27^th District
1981-1982	Representative	New York's 32^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Wortley to other members of the House of Representatives in the 100^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 1981 to Oct 1988, Wortley missed 240 of 3,537 roll call votes, which is 6.8%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	74^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	3	3.4%	26^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Oct-Dec	140	2	1.4%	18^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	75^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	1	0.8%	10^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	17	8.8%	67^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	3	3.0%	20^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	34^th
1983 Apr-Jun	180	16	8.9%	63^rd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	2	1.5%	23^rd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	3	2.1%	18^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	23^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	7	3.1%	31^st
1984 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	51^st
1985 Apr-Jun	153	12	7.8%	77^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	78^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	4	2.7%	39^th
1986 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	68^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	2	1.6%	27^th
1986 Jul-Sep	200	6	3.0%	49^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	3	5.0%	54^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	36^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	14	7.5%	70^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	8	8.4%	77^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	12	7.2%	55^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	11	22.4%	92^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	26	16.1%	91^st
1988 Jul-Sep	152	49	32.2%	97^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	7	7.9%	70^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