John Tunney, former Senator from California

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1976	Senator	California
1965-1971	Representative	California's 38^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Tunney to other members of the Senate in the 94^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 Tunney’s most recently sponsored bills include...

S.Res. 489 (94th): A resolution relating to the kidnapping of schoolchildren in Chowchilla, Calif.
S. 3639 (94th): A bill to amend the authorization for the Los Angeles and Long ...
S. 3638 (94th): A bill to amend the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, to ...
S.Con.Res. 128 (94th): Concurrent resolution directing the Secretary of the Senate to make corrections in ...
S. 3632 (94th): Federal Building Works of Art Program Act
S. 3633 (94th): A bill to provide reimbursement for disaster relief debris clearance to the ...
S. 3350 (94th): Materials Research and Development Act

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Voting Record

From Feb 1971 to Oct 1976, Tunney missed 842 of 3,348 roll call votes, which is 25.1%. This is worse than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Feb-Mar	25	5	20.0%	66^th
1971 Apr-Jun	88	26	29.5%	86^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	14	12.8%	45^th
1971 Oct-Dec	197	9	4.6%	17^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	26	21.8%	73^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	129	9	7.0%	23^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	206	8	3.9%	23^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	75	11	14.7%	61^st
1973 Jan-Mar	67	20	29.9%	88^th
1973 Apr-Jun	183	12	6.6%	39^th
1973 Jul-Sep	162	19	11.7%	72^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	168	7	4.2%	23^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	93	15	16.1%	73^rd
1974 Apr-Jun	178	28	15.7%	75^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	27	19.6%	82^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	131	23	17.6%	63^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	117	5	4.3%	34^th
1975 Apr-Jun	137	30	21.9%	82^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	167	9	5.4%	27^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	20	11.1%	57^th
1976 Jan-Mar	100	54	54.0%	99^th
1976 Apr-Jun	256	168	65.6%	99^th
1976 Jul-Sep	310	284	91.6%	98^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	13	100.0%	76^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