Rep. Jerry Lewis

Former Representative from California's 41^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2003-2013	Representative	California's 41^st District
1993-2002	Representative	California's 40^th District
1983-1992	Representative	California's 35^th District
1979-1982	Representative	California's 37^th District

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Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Lewis to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112^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 1979 to Jan 2013, Lewis missed 1,318 of 20,032 roll call votes, which is 6.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. 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%	38^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	7	3.2%	29^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	9	4.6%	63^rd
1979 Oct-Dec	188	17	9.0%	54^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	23	15.5%	75^th
1980 Apr-Jun	193	16	8.3%	50^th
1980 Jul-Sep	186	13	7.0%	67^th
1980 Oct-Dec	64	9	14.1%	63^rd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	4	26.7%	88^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	3	3.4%	24^th
1981 Jul-Sep	102	10	9.8%	85^th
1981 Oct-Dec	140	14	10.0%	82^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	7	14.6%	88^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	6	5.0%	50^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	8	4.1%	44^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	62^nd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	5	11.6%	72^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	12	6.6%	57^th
1983 Jul-Sep	128	12	9.4%	87^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	33	23.1%	93^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	28^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	25	11.3%	67^th
1984 Jul-Sep	93	10	10.8%	80^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	50^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	49^th
1985 Apr-Jun	153	6	3.9%	53^rd
1985 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	74^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	20	13.5%	91^st
1986 Jan-Mar	61	20	32.8%	98^th
1986 Apr-Jun	125	19	15.2%	98^th
1986 Jul-Sep	186	30	16.1%	94^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	4	2.1%	36^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	10	10.6%	89^th
1987 Oct-Dec	166	14	8.4%	71^st
1988 Feb-Mar	49	11	22.4%	96^th
1988 Apr-Jun	158	53	33.5%	98^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	23	15.1%	89^th
1988 Oct-Oct	88	51	58.0%	98^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	56^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	4	3.8%	57^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	3	2.3%	55^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	4	3.3%	46^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	9	15.0%	95^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	27	18.0%	92^nd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	13	7.1%	82^nd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	11	7.7%	80^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	3	2.2%	40^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	17	21.0%	95^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	10	6.2%	82^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	68^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	11	5.9%	70^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	8	4.1%	63^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	47^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	6	4.7%	71^st
1993 Apr-Jun	190	15	7.9%	74^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	5	3.7%	69^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	8	8.4%	85^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	11	5.0%	76^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	3	2.1%	42^nd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	47^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	1	0.5%	22^nd
1995 Jul-Sep	232	3	1.3%	41^st
1995 Oct-Dec	185	15	8.1%	90^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	9	8.2%	84^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	9	4.9%	78^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	9	5.5%	81^st
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	39^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	8	4.6%	78^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	5	2.2%	55^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	10	6.1%	83^rd
1998 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	16	8.6%	88^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	4	2.0%	47^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	1	1.4%	41^st
1999 Jan-Mar	77	1	1.3%	32^nd
1999 Apr-Jun	184	12	6.5%	83^rd
1999 Jul-Sep	204	7	3.4%	77^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	2	1.4%	36^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	3	3.2%	44^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	3	1.1%	32^nd
2000 Jul-Sep	130	10	7.7%	85^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	13	12.9%	77^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	21	28.0%	98^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	21	14.1%	96^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	4	2.6%	54^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	7	8.9%	87^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	7	3.4%	60^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	9	6.4%	78^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	10	16.4%	93^rd
2003 Jan-Mar	94	8	8.5%	89^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	16	6.7%	86^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	2	1.3%	31^st
2004 Jan-Mar	104	11	10.6%	83^rd
2004 Apr-Jun	221	4	1.8%	42^nd
2004 Jul-Sep	161	2	1.2%	29^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	1	1.7%	43^rd
2005 Jan-Mar	90	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	1	0.4%	15^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	2	1.4%	42^nd
2005 Oct-Dec	163	6	3.7%	62^nd
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	7	2.5%	59^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	9	5.7%	82^nd
2006 Nov-Dec	27	3	11.1%	80^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	8	3.8%	75^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	9	2.3%	61^st
2007 Jul-Sep	317	10	3.2%	68^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	24	9.1%	87^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	8	5.4%	62^nd
2008 Apr-Jun	321	1	0.3%	8^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	3	1.5%	34^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	3	1.7%	43^rd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	4	1.3%	30^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	5	1.9%	51^st
2009 Oct-Dec	246	2	0.8%	17^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	18	9.2%	88^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	6	2.7%	47^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	3	3.0%	44^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	2	0.9%	45^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	1	0.4%	16^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	12	5.8%	80^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	8	5.3%	78^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	163	54.5%	99^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	15	9.9%	88^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	8	15.7%	85^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	5	100.0%	99^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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills