Rep. Jack Kemp

Former Representative from New York's 31^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1988	Representative	New York's 31^st District
1973-1982	Representative	New York's 38^th District
1971-1972	Representative	New York's 39^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Kemp was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Kemp’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Kemp 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 1971 to Oct 1988, Kemp missed 1,526 of 9,266 roll call votes, which is 16.5%. 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
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	29^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	18	20.0%	83^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	71	8	11.3%	63^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	133	10	7.5%	38^th
1972 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	52^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	113	5	4.4%	24^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	9	9.0%	56^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	5	10.0%	43^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	30^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	14	7.4%	46^th
1973 Jul-Sep	126	23	18.3%	89^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	14^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	10	5.9%	35^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	6	4.1%	43^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	140	9	6.4%	36^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	56^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	18	9.0%	66^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	15	10.3%	74^th
1975 Oct-Dec	190	9	4.7%	54^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	9	8.5%	63^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	266	24	9.0%	56^th
1976 Jul-Sep	276	9	3.3%	35^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	4	4.0%	43^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	269	33	12.3%	81^st
1977 Jul-Sep	195	18	9.2%	71^st
1977 Oct-Dec	133	16	12.0%	82^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	149	17	11.4%	76^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	19	6.3%	43^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	305	68	22.3%	89^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	12	16.0%	83^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	48^th
1979 Apr-Jun	216	19	8.8%	66^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	22	11.2%	76^th
1979 Oct-Dec	187	42	22.5%	90^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	19	12.8%	72^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	195	25	12.8%	75^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	24	12.6%	75^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	18	26.9%	88^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	22	24.7%	95^th
1981 Jul-Sep	105	26	24.8%	97^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	15	10.6%	72^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	47	2	4.3%	49^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	16	13.4%	86^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	25	13.0%	81^st
1982 Oct-Dec	99	20	20.2%	85^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	8	18.6%	86^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	23	12.7%	80^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	6	4.6%	58^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	15	10.5%	76^th
1984 Jan-Mar	52	9	17.3%	87^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	30	13.5%	86^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	7	7.4%	67^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	10	27.8%	92^nd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	10	27.8%	96^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	11	7.1%	70^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	11	10.9%	86^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	19	12.8%	93^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	58	20	34.5%	98^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	12	9.4%	84^th
1986 Jul-Sep	200	36	18.0%	96^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	12	20.0%	92^nd
1987 Jan-Mar	39	13	33.3%	98^th
1987 Apr-Jun	183	89	48.6%	98^th
1987 Jul-Sep	93	65	69.9%	99^th
1987 Oct-Dec	154	153	99.4%	99^th
1988 Feb-Mar	47	40	85.1%	99^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	75	46.6%	97^th
1988 Jul-Sep	149	106	71.1%	99^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	49	55.1%	98^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. Jack Kemp [R-NY31, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for New York's 31st congressional district

Oct 22, 1988

Elections and Offices

Rep. Jack Kemp [R-NY31, 1983-1988] takes office as Representative for New York's 31st congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Jack Kemp [R-NY31, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for New York's 38th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Jack Kemp [R-NY31, 1983-1988] takes office as Representative for New York's 38th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. Jack Kemp [R-NY31, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for New York's 39th congressional district

Oct 18, 1972