Rep. Joseph Karth
Former Representative from Minnesota's 4th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Minnesota's 4th District | |
| Representative | Minnesota's 4th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Karth was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Karth’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Karth to other members of the House of Representatives in the 94th 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 Karth’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 15806 (94th): A bill to provide for the temporary suspension of duty on the ...
- H.R. 15720 (94th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 relating to ...
- H.R. 15363 (94th): National Forest Management Act
- H.R. 14196 (94th): Consumer Communications Reform Act
- H.R. 13436 (94th): A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to ...
- H.R. 13278 (94th): A bill to amend section 5051 of the Internal Revenue Code of ...
- H.R. 13136 (94th): Consumer Communications Reform Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1959 to Oct 1976, Karth missed 760 of 4,873 roll call votes, which is 15.6%. This is worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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