Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin
Former Representative from California's 42nd District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | California's 42nd District | |
| Representative | California's 41st District | |
| Representative | California's 37th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Van Deerlin was a moderate Democratic follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Van Deerlin’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Van Deerlin to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96th 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 Van Deerlin’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6471 (96th): A bill for the relief of James Daniel Bronson.
- H.R. 6121 (96th): Telecommunications Act of 1979
- H.R. 6103 (96th): A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that ...
- H.R. 5941 (96th): Domestic and International Telegraph Act of 1979
- H.R. 5403 (96th): A bill entitled “Southwest Coast Corridor Service”.
- H.R. 3662 (96th): A bill to grant a Federal Charter to the Navy Wives Clubs ...
- H.R. 3551 (96th): A bill for the relief of Edwin Mendez Yorobe and Barbara Magat ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1963 to Dec 1980, Van Deerlin missed 811 of 7,266 roll call votes, which is 11.2%. 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.
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