Rep. Marge Roukema

Former Representative from New Jersey's 5^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-2002	Representative	New Jersey's 5^th District
1981-1982	Representative	New Jersey's 7^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Roukema to other members of the House of Representatives in the 107^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 1981 to Nov 2002, Roukema missed 795 of 11,228 roll call votes, which is 7.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	3	3.4%	28^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	1	0.9%	14^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	3	2.1%	27^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	13	27.1%	93^rd
1982 Apr-Jun	118	1	0.8%	21^st
1982 Jul-Sep	193	13	6.7%	67^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	1	1.0%	10^th
1983 Jan-Mar	42	4	9.5%	66^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	1	0.6%	8^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	2	1.5%	23^rd
1983 Oct-Nov	141	6	4.3%	48^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	8	3.6%	35^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	62^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	28^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	67^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	1	0.6%	10^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Oct-Dec	147	3	2.0%	45^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	7	11.5%	78^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	5	3.9%	54^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	2	1.0%	23^rd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	41^st
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	63^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	15	8.0%	80^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	2	2.1%	56^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	4	2.4%	20^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	42^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	160	4	2.5%	50^th
1988 Jul-Sep	151	12	7.9%	80^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	6	5.7%	76^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	18^th
1989 Oct-Nov	120	6	5.0%	71^st
1990 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	90^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	28^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	25	13.7%	93^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	19	13.3%	92^nd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	32^nd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	19	13.7%	95^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	37^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	4	2.5%	56^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	60^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	10	5.1%	72^nd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	8	19.5%	92^nd
1993 Jan-Mar	127	16	12.6%	97^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	4	2.1%	43^rd
1993 Jul-Sep	164	2	1.2%	39^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	9	6.7%	90^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	8	8.4%	86^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	22	10.0%	95^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	5	3.5%	62^nd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	4	7.8%	87^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	10	3.6%	80^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	9	4.8%	79^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	14	6.0%	86^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	4	2.2%	53^rd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	10	9.1%	90^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	12	6.6%	85^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	2	1.2%	37^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	6	8.5%	87^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	14	6.0%	85^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	9	5.5%	81^st
1998 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	27^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	6	3.2%	64^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	5	2.5%	57^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	2	2.7%	57^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	3	3.9%	69^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	8	4.3%	78^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	6	2.9%	70^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	4	2.7%	52^nd
2000 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	57^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	17	6.1%	81^st
2000 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	55^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	4	4.0%	33^rd
2001 Jan-Mar	75	8	10.7%	91^st
2001 Apr-Jun	135	8	5.9%	80^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	3	2.0%	51^st
2001 Oct-Dec	153	26	17.0%	97^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	35	44.3%	99^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	99	48.8%	99^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	89	63.1%	100^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	61	100.0%	100^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Marge Roukema [R-NJ5, 1983-2002] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 5th congressional district

Nov 22, 2002

Elections and Offices

Rep. Marge Roukema [R-NJ5, 1983-2002] takes office as Representative for New Jersey's 5th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Marge Roukema [R-NJ5, 1983-2002] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 7th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Marge Roukema [R-NJ5, 1983-2002] takes office as Representative for New Jersey's 7th congressional district

Jan 05, 1981