Jim Moody, former Representative from Wisconsin's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1992	Representative	Wisconsin's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Moody was a far-left Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Moody’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Moody 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 1983 to Oct 1992, Moody missed 391 of 4,540 roll call votes, which is 8.6%. 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
1983 Jan-Mar	43	3	7.0%	48^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	7	3.8%	35^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	69^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	14	9.8%	77^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	50^th
1984 Apr-Jun	221	16	7.2%	62^nd
1984 Jul-Sep	95	13	13.7%	87^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	77^th
1985 Apr-Jun	153	11	7.2%	74^th
1985 Jul-Sep	100	4	4.0%	58^th
1985 Oct-Dec	147	4	2.7%	47^th
1986 Jan-Mar	60	9	15.0%	81^st
1986 Apr-Jun	128	7	5.5%	69^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	4	2.0%	35^th
1986 Oct-Oct	59	6	10.2%	81^st
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	38^th
1987 Apr-Jun	186	24	12.9%	90^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	71^st
1987 Oct-Dec	164	31	18.9%	95^th
1988 Feb-Mar	47	10	21.3%	94^th
1988 Apr-Jun	145	77	53.1%	99^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	5	3.3%	41^st
1988 Oct-Oct	89	3	3.4%	57^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	84^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	4	3.8%	54^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	3	2.3%	48^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	4	3.3%	43^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	85^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	25	16.7%	95^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	5	2.7%	47^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	13	9.1%	82^nd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	29^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	15	10.8%	90^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	11	13.6%	87^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	18	11.1%	91^st
1992 Jan-Mar	66	2	3.0%	46^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	1	0.5%	8^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	9	4.6%	57^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	38^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. Jim Moody [D-WI5, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for Wisconsin's 5th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Jim Moody [D-WI5, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for Wisconsin's 5th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Rep. Jim Moody

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices