Rep. Mario Biaggi

Former Representative from New York's 19^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1988	Representative	New York's 19^th District
1973-1982	Representative	New York's 10^th District
1969-1972	Representative	New York's 24^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Biaggi to other members of the House of Representatives 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 Jan 1969 to Aug 1988, Biaggi missed 1,909 of 9,427 roll call votes, which is 20.3%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	1	3.7%	39^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	10	22.2%	88^th
1969 Oct-Dec	86	3	3.5%	29^th
1970 Jan-Mar	34	4	11.8%	61^st
1970 Apr-Jun	74	21	28.4%	81^st
1970 Jul-Sep	72	18	25.0%	76^th
1970 Oct-Dec	77	26	33.8%	91^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	4	18.2%	79^th
1971 Apr-Jun	85	29	34.1%	95^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	7	9.7%	55^th
1971 Oct-Dec	131	4	3.1%	20^th
1972 Jan-Mar	62	10	16.1%	79^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	6	5.3%	28^th
1972 Jul-Sep	98	10	10.2%	64^th
1972 Oct-Oct	48	13	27.1%	76^th
1973 Jan-Mar	33	30	90.9%	96^th
1973 Apr-Jun	187	69	36.9%	96^th
1973 Jul-Sep	129	9	7.0%	63^rd
1973 Oct-Dec	178	30	16.9%	84^th
1974 Jan-Mar	75	8	10.7%	66^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	33	19.6%	85^th
1974 Jul-Sep	146	31	21.2%	91^st
1974 Oct-Dec	139	21	15.1%	74^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	7	10.3%	77^th
1975 Apr-Jun	196	32	16.3%	93^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	142	21	14.8%	87^th
1975 Oct-Dec	181	20	11.0%	85^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	24	22.6%	94^th
1976 Apr-Jun	261	44	16.9%	83^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	273	42	15.4%	83^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	16	16.2%	87^th
1977 Apr-Jun	271	42	15.5%	87^th
1977 Jul-Sep	189	33	17.5%	89^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	12	9.2%	71^st
1978 Jan-Mar	147	17	11.6%	78^th
1978 Apr-Jun	292	47	16.1%	81^st
1978 Jul-Sep	303	38	12.5%	72^nd
1978 Oct-Oct	74	17	23.0%	91^st
1979 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	71^st
1979 Apr-Jun	213	39	18.3%	94^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	35	17.7%	92^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	188	31	16.5%	81^st
1980 Jan-Mar	141	58	41.1%	99^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	22	11.3%	70^th
1980 Jul-Sep	188	25	13.3%	78^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	15	22.4%	82^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	74^th
1981 Apr-Jun	88	8	9.1%	69^th
1981 Jul-Sep	101	19	18.8%	93^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	135	27	20.0%	93^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	45	21	46.7%	97^th
1982 Apr-Jun	117	22	18.8%	94^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	44	22.8%	95^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	21	21.2%	87^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	181	29	16.0%	90^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	20	15.4%	95^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	24	16.8%	93^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	13	24.5%	92^nd
1984 Apr-Jun	220	22	10.0%	73^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	94	14	14.9%	89^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	10	28.6%	93^rd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	8	22.2%	93^rd
1985 Apr-Jun	153	14	9.2%	80^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	82^nd
1985 Oct-Dec	147	25	17.0%	97^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	49^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	5	3.9%	51^st
1986 Jul-Sep	201	28	13.9%	93^rd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	10	16.7%	89^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	4	10.3%	78^th
1987 Apr-Jun	183	14	7.7%	72^nd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	27	28.4%	97^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	167	100.0%	99^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	49	100.0%	100^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	161	100.0%	100^th
1988 Jul-Sep	48	48	100.0%	100^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Mario Biaggi [D-NY19, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for New York's 19th congressional district

Oct 22, 1988

Elections and Offices

Rep. Mario Biaggi [D-NY19, 1983-1988] takes office as Representative for New York's 19th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Mario Biaggi [D-NY19, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for New York's 10th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Mario Biaggi [D-NY19, 1983-1988] takes office as Representative for New York's 10th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. Mario Biaggi [D-NY19, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for New York's 24th congressional district

Oct 18, 1972