Sen. Henry Heinz III

Former Senator from Pennsylvania

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1991	Senator	Pennsylvania
1971-1976	Representative	Pennsylvania's 18^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Heinz was a centrist Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Heinz’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Heinz to other members of the Senate 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 1977 to Mar 1991, Heinz missed 399 of 6,028 roll call votes, which is 6.6%. This is worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1991. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	92	7	7.6%	56^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	5	2.8%	22^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	233	16	6.9%	72^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	130	16	12.3%	75^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	9	11.5%	75^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	5	4.2%	39^th
1978 Jul-Sep	235	28	11.9%	64^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	3	3.5%	42^nd
1979 Feb-Mar	32	3	9.4%	76^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	6	5.0%	54^th
1979 Jul-Sep	170	20	11.8%	78^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	28	15.2%	84^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	7	10.4%	70^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	11	5.1%	29^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	5	2.8%	27^th
1980 Oct-Dec	84	6	7.1%	39^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	2	3.5%	65^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	3	2.4%	44^th
1981 Jul-Sep	120	13	10.8%	89^th
1981 Oct-Dec	192	19	9.9%	76^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	4	5.2%	71^st
1982 Apr-Jun	124	7	5.6%	66^th
1982 Jul-Sep	176	20	11.4%	92^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	86	30	34.9%	95^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	121	8	6.6%	70^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	3	3.3%	50^th
1983 Oct-Nov	101	5	5.0%	44^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	2	4.4%	45^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	6	4.2%	34^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	6	8.8%	72^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	35	2	5.7%	47^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	61^st
1985 Apr-Jun	115	3	2.6%	62^nd
1985 Jul-Sep	60	4	6.7%	68^th
1985 Oct-Dec	182	11	6.0%	73^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Apr-Jun	103	2	1.9%	52^nd
1986 Jul-Sep	148	2	1.4%	51^st
1986 Oct-Oct	56	3	5.4%	79^th
1987 Jan-Mar	49	4	8.2%	80^th
1987 Apr-Jun	122	5	4.1%	59^th
1987 Jul-Sep	119	7	5.9%	73^rd
1987 Oct-Dec	127	7	5.5%	70^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	12	14.3%	81^st
1988 Apr-Jun	136	9	6.6%	76^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	5	3.9%	48^th
1988 Oct-Oct	30	11	36.7%	94^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	80^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	55^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	1	1.1%	53^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	48	1	2.1%	61^st
1990 Apr-Jun	95	3	3.2%	69^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	1	0.9%	49^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^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

Sen. Henry Heinz [R-PA, 1977-1991] leaves office as Senator from Pennsylvania

Dec 31, 1991

Elections and Offices

Sen. Henry Heinz [R-PA, 1977-1991] takes office as Senator from Pennsylvania

Jan 04, 1977

Elections and Offices

Sen. Henry Heinz [R-PA, 1977-1991] leaves office as Representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Sen. Henry Heinz [R-PA, 1977-1991] takes office as Representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district

Jan 21, 1971