John Culver, former Senator from Iowa

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1980	Senator	Iowa
1965-1974	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Culver to other members of the Senate in the 96^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

Some of Culver’s most recently sponsored bills include...

S. 3062 (96th): Senior Citizens Environmental Monitoring Act
S.J.Res. 195 (96th): A joint resolution to designate September 1980, as “National Rehabilitation Month.”
S. 2962 (96th): Non Carrier Railroad Acquisition Act of 1980
S. 2798 (96th): Small Business Motor Fuel Marketer Preservation Act of 1980
S.Res. 434 (96th): A resolution relating to Federal Reserve Board nominees.
S. 2726 (96th): Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1981
S.J.Res. 173 (96th): A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to proclaim the ...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1975 to Dec 1980, Culver missed 401 of 3,489 roll call votes, which is 11.5%. This is worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	117	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	5	3.6%	18^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	10	6.0%	40^th
1975 Oct-Dec	179	23	12.8%	71^st
1976 Jan-Mar	103	7	6.8%	51^st
1976 Apr-Jun	262	28	10.7%	48^th
1976 Jul-Sep	312	38	12.2%	52^nd
1976 Oct-Oct	13	2	15.4%	41^st
1977 Jan-Mar	89	5	5.6%	39^th
1977 Apr-Jun	173	22	12.7%	70^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	11	4.7%	40^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	7	5.3%	31^st
1978 Jan-Mar	78	10	12.8%	74^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	5	4.2%	35^th
1978 Jul-Sep	235	13	5.5%	30^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	4	4.7%	31^st
1979 Feb-Mar	32	1	3.1%	38^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	31	25.6%	91^st
1979 Jul-Sep	170	19	11.2%	69^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	30	16.3%	80^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	39	18.1%	80^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	64	36.0%	91^st
1980 Oct-Dec	84	27	32.1%	84^th

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills