Rep. Lester Wolff

Former Representative from New York's 6^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1980	Representative	New York's 6^th District
1965-1972	Representative	New York's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Wolff 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 1965 to Dec 1980, Wolff missed 699 of 6,976 roll call votes, which is 10.0%. 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
1965 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	36^th
1965 Apr-Jun	52	6	11.5%	68^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	8	8.2%	64^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	3	13.6%	65^th
1966 Jan-Mar	29	1	3.4%	47^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	4	7.8%	39^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	11	15.3%	63^rd
1966 Oct-Oct	36	14	38.9%	71^st
1967 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	55	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	97	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	1	1.1%	41^st
1968 Oct-Oct	24	2	8.3%	55^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	6	21.4%	84^th
1969 Jul-Sep	43	10	23.3%	92^nd
1969 Oct-Dec	88	7	8.0%	40^th
1970 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	37^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	5	6.8%	16^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	10	13.2%	57^th
1970 Oct-Dec	66	20	30.3%	87^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	12	13.3%	57^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	5	6.9%	43^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	133	5	3.8%	20^th
1972 Jan-Mar	60	13	21.7%	86^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	1	0.9%	9^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	10	10.0%	58^th
1972 Oct-Oct	47	13	27.7%	78^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	54^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	20	10.6%	65^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	43^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	179	12	6.7%	53^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	74	10	13.5%	75^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	5	3.0%	15^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	5	3.4%	32^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	139	20	14.4%	73^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	61^st
1975 Apr-Jun	195	15	7.7%	65^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	6	4.1%	40^th
1975 Oct-Dec	187	12	6.4%	63^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	104	11	10.6%	76^th
1976 Apr-Jun	262	18	6.9%	42^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	279	21	7.5%	61^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	1	1.0%	24^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	13	4.8%	39^th
1977 Jul-Sep	190	44	23.2%	96^th
1977 Oct-Dec	118	70	59.3%	99^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	9	6.0%	42^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	292	29	9.9%	61^st
1978 Jul-Sep	304	31	10.2%	66^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	35^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	10	4.6%	34^th
1979 Jul-Sep	193	46	23.8%	93^rd
1979 Oct-Dec	188	19	10.1%	53^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	147	16	10.9%	62^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	194	42	21.6%	88^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	10	5.2%	37^th
1980 Oct-Dec	65	19	29.2%	83^rd

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. Lester Wolff [D-NY6, 1973-1980] leaves office as Representative for New York's 6th congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Lester Wolff [D-NY6, 1973-1980] takes office as Representative for New York's 6th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. Lester Wolff [D-NY6, 1973-1980] leaves office as Representative for New York's 3rd congressional district

Oct 18, 1972

Elections and Offices

Rep. Lester Wolff [D-NY6, 1973-1980] takes office as Representative for New York's 3rd congressional district

Jan 04, 1965