James Santini, former Representative from Nevada

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1982	Representative	Nevada's At-Large District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Santini to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^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 1975 to Dec 1982, Santini missed 901 of 4,833 roll call votes, which is 18.6%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	7	10.3%	73^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	2	1.0%	8^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	18	12.3%	82^nd
1975 Oct-Dec	189	11	5.8%	63^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	105	9	8.6%	66^th
1976 Apr-Jun	265	61	23.0%	93^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	278	20	7.2%	60^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	96	15	15.6%	88^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	28	10.3%	74^th
1977 Jul-Sep	194	23	11.9%	80^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	20	15.2%	88^th
1978 Jan-Mar	147	23	15.6%	85^th
1978 Apr-Jun	298	77	25.8%	93^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	302	35	11.6%	68^th
1978 Oct-Oct	74	8	10.8%	77^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	7	11.3%	77^th
1979 Apr-Jun	216	42	19.4%	93^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	194	36	18.6%	91^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	46	24.2%	91^st
1980 Jan-Mar	147	49	33.3%	97^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	55	28.4%	96^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	31	16.3%	86^th
1980 Oct-Dec	66	19	28.8%	89^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	16	18.0%	86^th
1981 Jul-Sep	104	35	33.7%	98^th
1981 Oct-Dec	139	38	27.3%	94^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	24	50.0%	97^th
1982 Apr-Jun	118	29	24.6%	92^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	190	75	39.5%	95^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	41	41.4%	92^nd

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. James Santini [D-NV0, 1975-1982] leaves office as Representative for Nevada At Large

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. James Santini [D-NV0, 1975-1982] takes office as Representative for Nevada At Large

Jan 14, 1975

Rep. James Santini

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices