John Bryant, former Representative from Texas's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1996	Representative	Texas's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Bryant to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104^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 1983 to Sep 1996, Bryant missed 588 of 7,026 roll call votes, which is 8.4%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	9	20.9%	93^rd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	13	7.1%	59^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	6	4.6%	60^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	5	3.5%	35^th
1984 Jan-Mar	52	10	19.2%	91^st
1984 Apr-Jun	220	50	22.7%	95^th
1984 Jul-Sep	94	8	8.5%	78^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	6	16.7%	82^nd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	65^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	4	2.6%	30^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	6	5.9%	61^st
1985 Oct-Dec	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	9	14.8%	83^rd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	2	1.6%	30^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	4	2.0%	40^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	3	7.7%	72^nd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	12	6.4%	69^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	12	12.6%	87^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	7	4.2%	32^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	38^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	6	3.7%	49^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	18	11.8%	84^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	1	1.1%	38^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	54^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	27	25.7%	98^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	18	14.1%	97^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	56	46.3%	100^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	34^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	5	3.3%	58^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	2	1.1%	30^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	39^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	6	4.3%	62^nd
1991 Jul-Sep	81	7	8.6%	80^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	15	9.3%	90^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	22	11.9%	89^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	13	6.6%	77^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	65^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	11	8.7%	90^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	7	3.7%	61^st
1993 Jul-Sep	164	7	4.3%	75^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	5	3.7%	73^rd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	63^rd
1994 Apr-Jun	219	7	3.2%	65^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	10	7.0%	81^st
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	47^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	16	5.7%	88^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	11	5.8%	82^nd
1995 Jul-Sep	232	12	5.2%	81^st
1995 Oct-Dec	185	17	9.2%	89^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	67	60.9%	99^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	27	14.8%	95^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	9	5.5%	79^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Bryant [D-TX5, 1983-1996] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 5th congressional district

Oct 04, 1996

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Bryant [D-TX5, 1983-1996] takes office as Representative for Texas's 5th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Rep. John Bryant

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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