Rep. Joseph Addabbo

Former Representative from New York's 6^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1986	Representative	New York's 6^th District
1963-1982	Representative	New York's 7^th District
1961-1962	Representative	New York's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Addabbo was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Addabbo’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Addabbo to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^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 1961 to Apr 1986, Addabbo missed 1,131 of 9,535 roll call votes, which is 11.9%. This is worse than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	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	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	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	32^nd
1965 Apr-Jun	47	4	8.5%	60^th
1965 Jul-Sep	97	5	5.2%	49^th
1965 Oct-Oct	21	5	23.8%	91^st
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	6	11.8%	54^th
1966 Jul-Sep	69	8	11.6%	48^th
1966 Oct-Oct	37	5	13.5%	56^th
1967 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	57^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	3	3.4%	72^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	24	1	4.2%	43^rd
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	1	3.7%	40^th
1969 Jul-Sep	42	6	14.3%	76^th
1969 Oct-Dec	84	6	7.1%	39^th
1970 Jan-Mar	34	1	2.9%	29^th
1970 Apr-Jun	72	10	13.9%	40^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	11	14.7%	63^rd
1970 Oct-Dec	77	14	18.2%	67^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	7	7.8%	26^th
1971 Jul-Sep	70	16	22.9%	91^st
1971 Oct-Dec	131	10	7.6%	44^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	9	14.1%	69^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	15	13.3%	60^th
1972 Jul-Sep	97	11	11.3%	66^th
1972 Oct-Oct	49	1	2.0%	21^st
1973 Jan-Mar	36	7	19.4%	82^nd
1973 Apr-Jun	189	10	5.3%	35^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	62^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	178	19	10.7%	73^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	74	9	12.2%	68^th
1974 Apr-Jun	167	19	11.4%	60^th
1974 Jul-Sep	147	6	4.1%	47^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	9	6.5%	39^th
1975 Jan-Mar	66	8	12.1%	83^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	193	14	7.3%	62^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	138	11	8.0%	65^th
1975 Oct-Dec	185	20	10.8%	84^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	6	5.8%	57^th
1976 Apr-Jun	256	29	11.3%	68^th
1976 Jul-Sep	272	34	12.5%	77^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	2	28.6%	80^th
1977 Jan-Mar	98	4	4.1%	50^th
1977 Apr-Jun	262	25	9.5%	70^th
1977 Jul-Sep	190	23	12.1%	81^st
1977 Oct-Dec	134	4	3.0%	34^th
1978 Jan-Mar	145	25	17.2%	91^st
1978 Apr-Jun	291	25	8.6%	60^th
1978 Jul-Sep	292	51	17.5%	87^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	37^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	35^th
1979 Apr-Jun	211	46	21.8%	95^th
1979 Jul-Sep	196	23	11.7%	80^th
1979 Oct-Dec	185	20	10.8%	62^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	132	44	33.3%	98^th
1980 Apr-Jun	190	18	9.5%	59^th
1980 Jul-Sep	189	21	11.1%	71^st
1980 Oct-Dec	64	5	7.8%	48^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	47^th
1981 Apr-Jun	88	6	6.8%	59^th
1981 Jul-Sep	103	9	8.7%	74^th
1981 Oct-Dec	139	15	10.8%	73^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	10	20.8%	83^rd
1982 Apr-Jun	114	5	4.4%	57^th
1982 Jul-Sep	189	47	24.9%	96^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	19	19.2%	83^rd
1983 Jan-Mar	42	2	4.8%	46^th
1983 Apr-Jun	174	22	12.6%	80^th
1983 Jul-Sep	122	12	9.8%	87^th
1983 Oct-Nov	141	14	9.9%	75^th
1984 Jan-Mar	51	2	3.9%	48^th
1984 Apr-Jun	217	28	12.9%	85^th
1984 Jul-Sep	93	10	10.8%	81^st
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	28^th
1985 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	51^st
1985 Apr-Jun	148	26	17.6%	96^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	30	29.7%	99^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	120	81.1%	100^th
1986 Jan-Mar	59	35	59.3%	98^th
1986 Apr-Jun	8	8	100.0%	100^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Joseph Addabbo [D-NY6, 1983-1986] leaves office as Representative for New York's 6th congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Rep. Joseph Addabbo [D-NY6, 1983-1986] takes office as Representative for New York's 6th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Joseph Addabbo [D-NY6, 1983-1986] leaves office as Representative for New York's 7th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Joseph Addabbo [D-NY6, 1983-1986] takes office as Representative for New York's 7th congressional district

Jan 09, 1963

Elections and Offices

Rep. Joseph Addabbo [D-NY6, 1983-1986] leaves office as Representative for New York's 5th congressional district

Oct 13, 1962