Gus Savage, former Representative from Illinois's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1981-1992	Representative	Illinois's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Savage was a moderate Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Savage’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Savage to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd 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 1992, Savage missed 1,015 of 5,368 roll call votes, which is 18.9%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	15	4	26.7%	92^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	89	24	27.0%	96^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	80	75.5%	100^th
1981 Oct-Dec	139	62	44.6%	99^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	21	43.8%	96^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	36	30.3%	97^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	73	37.8%	98^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	43	43.4%	97^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	13	30.2%	98^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	23	12.6%	79^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	12	9.3%	89^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	9	6.3%	59^th
1984 Jan-Mar	48	35	72.9%	100^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	35	15.7%	90^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	14	14.7%	89^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	61^st
1985 Jan-Mar	36	7	19.4%	92^nd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	30	19.5%	97^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	58^th
1985 Oct-Dec	147	7	4.8%	64^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	27	44.3%	98^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	16	12.5%	93^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	200	23	11.5%	92^nd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	4	6.7%	66^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	9	23.1%	95^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	16	8.6%	78^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	7	7.4%	76^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	7	4.2%	30^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	19	38.8%	98^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	12	7.5%	72^nd
1988 Jul-Sep	151	14	9.3%	81^st
1988 Oct-Oct	89	9	10.1%	81^st
1989 Jan-Mar	14	8	57.1%	100^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	10	9.5%	88^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	8	6.3%	81^st
1989 Oct-Nov	121	6	5.0%	60^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	20	33.3%	99^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	14	9.3%	85^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	14	7.7%	85^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	14	9.8%	85^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	7	11.3%	89^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	14	10.1%	88^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	8	9.9%	80^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	40	24.7%	98^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	23	34.8%	98^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	39	21.1%	94^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	74	37.8%	97^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	17	41.5%	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. Gus Savage [D-IL2, 1981-1992] leaves office as Representative for Illinois's 2nd congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gus Savage [D-IL2, 1981-1992] takes office as Representative for Illinois's 2nd congressional district

Jan 05, 1981

Rep. Gus Savage

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices