Sen. Lowell Weicker Jr.

Former Senator from Connecticut

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1988	Senator	Connecticut
1969-1971	Representative	Connecticut's 4^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Weicker was a centrist Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Weicker’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Weicker to other members of the Senate in the 100^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 Feb 1971 to Oct 1988, Weicker missed 1,057 of 8,721 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Feb-Mar	25	1	4.0%	28^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	18	20.2%	74^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	29	26.6%	89^th
1971 Oct-Dec	201	34	16.9%	68^th
1972 Jan-Mar	118	11	9.3%	47^th
1972 Apr-Jun	128	21	16.4%	79^th
1972 Jul-Sep	201	20	10.0%	74^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	14	18.7%	63^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	67	3	4.5%	44^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	17	9.0%	64^th
1973 Jul-Sep	163	15	9.2%	68^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	11	6.5%	40^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	22	23.7%	88^th
1974 Apr-Jun	176	15	8.5%	58^th
1974 Jul-Sep	137	2	1.5%	12^th
1974 Oct-Dec	132	22	16.7%	65^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	2	1.7%	40^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	9	6.4%	30^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	5	3.0%	20^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	12	6.7%	40^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	5	4.9%	40^th
1976 Apr-Jun	262	64	24.4%	90^th
1976 Jul-Sep	310	53	17.1%	67^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	10	76.9%	63^rd
1977 Jan-Mar	92	15	16.3%	76^th
1977 Apr-Jun	176	35	19.9%	91^st
1977 Jul-Sep	233	20	8.6%	78^th
1977 Oct-Dec	132	41	31.1%	98^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	5	6.4%	36^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	16	13.4%	82^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	235	30	12.8%	64^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	14	16.5%	84^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	5	15.6%	87^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	18	14.9%	85^th
1979 Jul-Sep	170	28	16.5%	92^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	184	14	7.6%	56^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	20	9.3%	59^th
1980 Jul-Sep	178	28	15.7%	92^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	84	9	10.7%	54^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	1	1.8%	36^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	5	4.0%	59^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	24	19.7%	99^th
1981 Oct-Dec	192	24	12.5%	85^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	1	1.3%	32^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	127	3	2.4%	39^th
1982 Jul-Sep	176	47	26.7%	99^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	12	14.0%	88^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	6	11.1%	81^st
1983 Apr-Jun	121	15	12.4%	94^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	10	10.9%	81^st
1983 Oct-Nov	101	16	15.8%	81^st
1984 Jan-Mar	45	7	15.6%	83^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	144	27	18.8%	96^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	10	14.7%	91^st
1984 Oct-Oct	35	1	2.9%	43^rd
1985 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	5	4.3%	64^th
1985 Jul-Sep	60	4	6.7%	69^th
1985 Oct-Dec	183	26	14.2%	93^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Apr-Jun	103	10	9.7%	89^th
1986 Jul-Sep	149	14	9.4%	90^th
1986 Oct-Oct	56	6	10.7%	90^th
1987 Jan-Mar	50	2	4.0%	52^nd
1987 Apr-Jun	123	13	10.6%	84^th
1987 Jul-Sep	120	18	15.0%	94^th
1987 Oct-Dec	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	8	9.5%	66^th
1988 Apr-Jun	136	5	3.7%	44^th
1988 Jul-Sep	126	18	14.3%	91^st
1988 Oct-Oct	30	6	20.0%	79^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

Sen. Lowell Weicker [R-CT, 1971-1988] leaves office as Senator from Connecticut

Oct 22, 1988

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lowell Weicker [R-CT, 1971-1988] takes office as Senator from Connecticut

Jan 21, 1971

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lowell Weicker [R-CT, 1971-1988] leaves office as Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district

Jan 02, 1971

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lowell Weicker [R-CT, 1971-1988] takes office as Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district

Jan 03, 1969