Rep. John Moss

Former Representative from California's 3^rd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1978	Representative	California's 3^rd District
1959-1960	Representative	California's 3^rd District
1957-1958	Representative	California's 3^rd District
1953-1956	Representative	California's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Moss 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 1953 to Oct 1978, Moss missed 981 of 6,817 roll call votes, which is 14.4%. 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
1953 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Aug	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Aug	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	36^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	4	7.5%	46^th
1965 Jul-Sep	97	16	16.5%	84^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	1	3.3%	31^st
1966 Apr-Jun	44	21	47.7%	94^th
1966 Jul-Sep	68	7	10.3%	48^th
1966 Oct-Oct	27	22	81.5%	95^th
1967 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	52	2	3.8%	97^th
1967 Oct-Dec	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	1	1.1%	42^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	22	5	22.7%	87^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	3	11.1%	68^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	2	4.4%	29^th
1969 Oct-Dec	85	28	32.9%	94^th
1970 Jan-Mar	31	22	71.0%	98^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	8	10.8%	30^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	4	5.3%	24^th
1970 Oct-Dec	69	40	58.0%	98^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	35^th
1971 Apr-Jun	86	15	17.4%	75^th
1971 Jul-Sep	71	11	15.5%	80^th
1971 Oct-Dec	131	22	16.8%	72^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	8	12.5%	65^th
1972 Apr-Jun	107	40	37.4%	93^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	100	4	4.0%	29^th
1972 Oct-Oct	46	14	30.4%	85^th
1973 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	49^th
1973 Apr-Jun	187	25	13.4%	74^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	30^th
1973 Oct-Dec	179	28	15.6%	83^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	74	24	32.4%	99^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	13	7.7%	42^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	147	7	4.8%	49^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	26	18.7%	83^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	30^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	10	5.0%	44^th
1975 Jul-Sep	137	19	13.9%	86^th
1975 Oct-Dec	188	24	12.8%	88^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	9	8.6%	66^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	25	9.5%	58^th
1976 Jul-Sep	276	49	17.8%	88^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	7	100.0%	93^rd
1977 Jan-Mar	100	9	9.0%	70^th
1977 Apr-Jun	265	74	27.9%	96^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	49	24.7%	95^th
1977 Oct-Dec	127	36	28.3%	96^th
1978 Jan-Mar	148	26	17.6%	85^th
1978 Apr-Jun	297	60	20.2%	84^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	86	27.9%	89^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	66	88.0%	98^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Moss [D-CA3, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 3rd congressional district

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Moss [D-CA3, 1961-1978] takes office as Representative for California's 3rd congressional district

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Moss [D-CA3, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 3rd congressional district

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Moss [D-CA3, 1961-1978] takes office as Representative for California's 3rd congressional district

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Rep. John Moss [D-CA3, 1961-1978] leaves office as Representative for California's 3rd congressional district

Aug 24, 1958