Lyle Williams, former Representative from Ohio's 17th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1984	Representative	Ohio's 17^th District
1979-1982	Representative	Ohio's 19^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Williams was a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Williams’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Williams to other members of the House of Representatives in the 98^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 1979 to Oct 1984, Williams missed 565 of 2,944 roll call votes, which is 19.2%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	61	28	45.9%	98^th
1979 Apr-Jun	207	50	24.2%	97^th
1979 Jul-Sep	191	56	29.3%	98^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	34	18.1%	86^th
1980 Jan-Mar	146	34	23.3%	91^st
1980 Apr-Jun	196	18	9.2%	58^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	32	16.8%	88^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	17	25.4%	86^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	15	16.9%	87^th
1981 Jul-Sep	105	5	4.8%	56^th
1981 Oct-Dec	134	42	31.3%	97^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	4	8.3%	57^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	7	5.9%	64^th
1982 Jul-Sep	190	12	6.3%	56^th
1982 Oct-Dec	98	21	21.4%	89^th
1983 Jan-Mar	42	19	45.2%	99^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	14	7.7%	58^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	16	12.4%	91^st
1983 Oct-Nov	143	34	23.8%	96^th
1984 Jan-Mar	51	10	19.6%	88^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	47	21.2%	94^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	41	43.2%	98^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	8	22.2%	87^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