Joe Skubitz, former Representative from Kansas's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1963-1978	Representative	Kansas's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Skubitz to other members of the House of Representatives in the 95^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 1963 to Oct 1978, Skubitz missed 602 of 5,994 roll call votes, which is 10.0%. This is worse than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	3	10.7%	73^rd
1965 Apr-Jun	51	2	3.9%	35^th
1965 Jul-Sep	97	2	2.1%	30^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	4	18.2%	75^th
1966 Jan-Mar	29	3	10.3%	66^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	1	2.0%	17^th
1966 Jul-Sep	71	3	4.2%	28^th
1966 Oct-Oct	37	8	21.6%	58^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	73^rd
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	1	1.0%	76^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	1	1.3%	42^nd
1968 Jul-Sep	90	2	2.2%	55^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	3	10.7%	57^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	1	2.2%	17^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	9	10.2%	49^th
1970 Jan-Mar	34	2	5.9%	46^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	6^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	9	12.0%	54^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	19	23.5%	75^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	58^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	16	17.8%	75^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	4	5.6%	37^th
1971 Oct-Dec	130	38	29.2%	91^st
1972 Jan-Mar	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	12	10.6%	45^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	8	8.0%	51^st
1972 Oct-Oct	49	13	26.5%	75^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	24^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	11	5.8%	35^th
1973 Jul-Sep	129	9	7.0%	64^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	14	7.8%	58^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	13	16.9%	86^th
1974 Apr-Jun	167	8	4.8%	30^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	8	5.4%	52^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	14	9.9%	57^th
1975 Jan-Mar	59	29	49.2%	100^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	11	5.6%	51^st
1975 Jul-Sep	146	5	3.4%	33^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	190	6	3.2%	37^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	12	11.3%	77^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	23	8.7%	51^st
1976 Jul-Sep	279	21	7.5%	59^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	96	3	3.1%	39^th
1977 Apr-Jun	271	38	14.0%	82^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	196	31	15.8%	84^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	15	11.5%	75^th
1978 Jan-Mar	146	16	11.0%	68^th
1978 Apr-Jun	292	61	20.9%	85^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	59	19.2%	83^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	72	25	34.7%	91^st

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. Joe Skubitz [R-KS5, 1963-1978] leaves office as Representative for Kansas's 5th congressional district

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Rep. Joe Skubitz [R-KS5, 1963-1978] takes office as Representative for Kansas's 5th congressional district

Jan 09, 1963

Rep. Joe Skubitz

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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