Rep. James Courter

Former Representative from New Jersey's 12^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1990	Representative	New Jersey's 12^th District
1979-1982	Representative	New Jersey's 13^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Courter to other members of the House of Representatives in the 101^st 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 1979 to Oct 1990, Courter missed 628 of 5,684 roll call votes, which is 11.0%. This is worse than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1990. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	33^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	220	7	3.2%	26^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	4	2.0%	17^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	2	1.1%	6^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	10	5.2%	40^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	3	1.6%	15^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	49^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	6	6.7%	55^th
1981 Jul-Sep	104	9	8.7%	75^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	38^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	25^th
1982 Apr-Jun	112	33	29.5%	97^th
1982 Jul-Sep	191	9	4.7%	45^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	3	3.0%	21^st
1983 Jan-Mar	43	5	11.6%	70^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	15	8.2%	61^st
1983 Jul-Sep	130	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	1	0.7%	6^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	50^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	21	9.4%	69^th
1984 Jul-Sep	94	14	14.9%	89^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	6	17.1%	86^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	6	16.7%	85^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	5	3.2%	36^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	12	11.9%	88^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	2	1.4%	22^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	6	9.8%	62^nd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	2	1.6%	28^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	7	3.5%	51^st
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	20	10.7%	85^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	162	30	18.5%	94^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	14	28.6%	97^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	17	10.6%	87^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	18	11.8%	85^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	23	25.8%	97^th
1989 Jan-Mar	10	5	50.0%	99^th
1989 Apr-Jun	98	70	71.4%	100^th
1989 Jul-Sep	124	99	79.8%	100^th
1989 Oct-Nov	119	87	73.1%	99^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	10	6.7%	75^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	11	6.0%	75^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	19	13.3%	90^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Courter [R-NJ12, 1983-1990] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district

Oct 28, 1990

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Courter [R-NJ12, 1983-1990] takes office as Representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Courter [R-NJ12, 1983-1990] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 13th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Courter [R-NJ12, 1983-1990] takes office as Representative for New Jersey's 13th congressional district

Jan 15, 1979