Rep. Martin Russo

Former Representative from Illinois's 3^rd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1992	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Russo to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd 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 1975 to Oct 1992, Russo missed 772 of 9,410 roll call votes, which is 8.2%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	10	5.1%	51^st
1975 Jul-Sep	146	1	0.7%	8^th
1975 Oct-Dec	189	10	5.3%	59^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	4	3.8%	41^st
1976 Apr-Jun	266	10	3.8%	25^th
1976 Jul-Sep	276	43	15.6%	87^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	71^st
1977 Jan-Mar	99	8	8.1%	70^th
1977 Apr-Jun	265	38	14.3%	87^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	11	5.6%	55^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	15	11.5%	82^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	147	12	8.2%	62^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	299	39	13.0%	75^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	25	8.1%	59^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	5	6.7%	59^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	21	9.5%	73^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	198	18	9.1%	69^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	37	20.1%	88^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	15	10.1%	62^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	195	25	12.8%	77^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	32	16.8%	87^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	5	7.5%	47^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	2	2.2%	19^th
1981 Jul-Sep	105	5	4.8%	58^th
1981 Oct-Dec	139	18	12.9%	81^st
1982 Feb-Mar	47	14	29.8%	93^rd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	2	1.7%	23^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	5	2.6%	26^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	11	11.1%	64^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	8	18.6%	87^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	21	11.5%	76^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	12^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	14	9.8%	77^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	24^th
1984 Apr-Jun	220	31	14.1%	87^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	18^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	53^rd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	12	7.8%	76^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	4	4.0%	51^st
1985 Oct-Dec	147	8	5.4%	67^th
1986 Jan-Mar	60	5	8.3%	63^rd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jul-Sep	200	8	4.0%	58^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	16	26.7%	95^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	15	8.0%	75^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	71^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	13	7.8%	61^st
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	43^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	13	8.1%	75^th
1988 Jul-Sep	151	12	7.9%	77^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	2	2.2%	49^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	42^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	19^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	16	13.2%	92^nd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	5	3.3%	56^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	2	1.1%	26^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	10	7.0%	73^rd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	50^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	1	0.7%	14^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	9	5.6%	75^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	24	36.4%	98^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	25	13.5%	87^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	27	13.8%	85^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	7	17.1%	88^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Martin Russo [D-IL3, 1975-1992] leaves office as Representative for Illinois's 3rd congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Martin Russo [D-IL3, 1975-1992] takes office as Representative for Illinois's 3rd congressional district

Jan 14, 1975