Rep. Jerome Traxler

Former Representative from Michigan's 8^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1992	Representative	Michigan's 8^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Traxler 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 1973 to Oct 1992, Traxler missed 1,684 of 10,397 roll call votes, which is 16.2%. 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
1973 Jan-Mar	36	36	100.0%	96^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	189	100.0%	97^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	130	100.0%	97^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	180	100.0%	97^th
1974 Apr-Jun	137	4	2.9%	14^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	8	5.4%	51^st
1974 Oct-Dec	141	28	19.9%	87^th
1975 Jan-Mar	66	10	15.2%	87^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	6	3.0%	36^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	13	8.9%	66^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	5	2.6%	33^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	105	13	12.4%	80^th
1976 Apr-Jun	266	30	11.3%	72^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	279	14	5.0%	46^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	71^st
1977 Jan-Mar	100	9	9.0%	74^th
1977 Apr-Jun	270	32	11.9%	83^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	197	18	9.1%	72^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	132	9	6.8%	63^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	149	17	11.4%	76^th
1978 Apr-Jun	299	33	11.0%	69^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	37	12.0%	71^st
1978 Oct-Oct	75	8	10.7%	78^th
1979 Jan-Mar	61	22	36.1%	97^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	32	14.5%	88^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	19	9.6%	71^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	15	7.9%	43^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	8	5.4%	31^st
1980 Apr-Jun	196	11	5.6%	42^nd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	15	7.8%	57^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	12	17.9%	74^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	12	13.5%	81^st
1981 Jul-Sep	106	4	3.8%	45^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	14	9.9%	70^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	27^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	12	10.1%	79^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	23	11.9%	80^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	22	22.2%	88^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	9	20.9%	91^st
1983 Apr-Jun	182	21	11.5%	76^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	10	7.7%	79^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	11	7.7%	65^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	39^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	24	10.8%	76^th
1984 Jul-Sep	94	17	18.1%	92^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	5	13.9%	78^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	77^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	17	11.0%	87^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	8	7.9%	74^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	17	11.5%	92^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	60	4	6.7%	56^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	8	6.3%	74^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	16	8.0%	79^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	22	36.7%	97^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	10	25.6%	97^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	6	3.2%	40^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	6	6.4%	75^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	16	9.6%	74^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	57^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	19	11.8%	90^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	12	7.9%	75^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	10	11.2%	84^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	84^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	8	7.6%	82^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	5	3.9%	63^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	13	10.7%	87^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	85^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	10	6.7%	77^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	13	7.1%	82^nd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	15	10.5%	88^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	3	4.8%	64^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	7	5.0%	65^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	6	7.4%	69^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	20	12.3%	93^rd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	4	6.1%	62^nd
1992 Apr-Jun	185	107	57.8%	100^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	119	60.7%	99^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	15	36.6%	95^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. Jerome Traxler [D-MI8, 1973-1992] leaves office as Representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Jerome Traxler [D-MI8, 1973-1992] takes office as Representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973