Keith Sebelius, former Representative from Kansas's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1969-1980	Representative	Kansas's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Sebelius was a far-right Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Sebelius’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Sebelius to other members of the House of Representatives 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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1969 to Dec 1980, Sebelius missed 654 of 6,156 roll call votes, which is 10.6%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	55^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	2	7.1%	42^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	5	11.1%	62^nd
1969 Oct-Dec	86	10	11.6%	59^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	22^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	74	15	20.3%	63^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	14	18.4%	73^rd
1970 Oct-Dec	78	16	20.5%	72^nd
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	7	7.8%	31^st
1971 Jul-Sep	72	4	5.6%	36^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	19	14.3%	60^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	1	1.6%	12^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	15	13.3%	56^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	3	3.0%	23^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	5	10.0%	43^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	10	5.3%	32^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	43^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	180	14	7.8%	59^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	4	5.2%	32^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	169	13	7.7%	42^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	8	5.4%	54^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	23	16.3%	79^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	39^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	21	10.6%	76^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	2	1.4%	13^th
1975 Oct-Dec	190	11	5.8%	59^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	9	8.5%	66^th
1976 Apr-Jun	262	26	9.9%	61^st
1976 Jul-Sep	275	28	10.2%	71^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	13^th
1977 Apr-Jun	257	64	24.9%	97^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	5	2.6%	31^st
1977 Oct-Dec	133	20	15.0%	86^th
1978 Jan-Mar	147	2	1.4%	17^th
1978 Apr-Jun	296	35	11.8%	70^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	38	12.3%	73^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	72	7	9.7%	72^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	31^st
1979 Apr-Jun	218	18	8.3%	58^th
1979 Jul-Sep	194	25	12.9%	78^th
1979 Oct-Dec	183	46	25.1%	89^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	1	0.7%	4^th
1980 Apr-Jun	188	55	29.3%	94^th
1980 Jul-Sep	185	29	15.7%	80^th
1980 Oct-Dec	64	12	18.8%	70^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. Keith Sebelius [R-KS1, 1969-1980] leaves office as Representative for Kansas's 1st congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Keith Sebelius [R-KS1, 1969-1980] takes office as Representative for Kansas's 1st congressional district

Jan 03, 1969

Rep. Keith Sebelius

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices