Rep. Mary Oakar

Former Representative from Ohio's 20^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1992	Representative	Ohio's 20^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Oakar was a far-left Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Oakar’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Oakar 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 1977 to Oct 1992, Oakar missed 706 of 8,177 roll call votes, which is 8.6%. 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
1977 Jan-Mar	97	18	18.6%	91^st
1977 Apr-Jun	273	7	2.6%	25^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	5	2.6%	33^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	133	3	2.3%	34^th
1978 Jan-Mar	148	12	8.1%	61^st
1978 Apr-Jun	299	94	31.4%	94^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	44	14.3%	78^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	6	8.0%	64^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	10	15.9%	84^th
1979 Apr-Jun	218	14	6.4%	56^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	13	6.6%	60^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	27	14.3%	74^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	9	6.1%	38^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	23	11.9%	73^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	30	15.6%	83^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	1	1.5%	8^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	7	7.9%	64^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	7	6.6%	65^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	28	19.9%	93^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	27^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	1	0.8%	10^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	28	14.5%	86^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	3	3.0%	22^nd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	18^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	1	0.5%	5^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	36^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	4	2.8%	28^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	24^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	7	3.1%	33^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	34^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	5	13.9%	78^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	22^nd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	5	3.2%	37^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	2	2.0%	33^rd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	7	4.7%	59^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	11	18.0%	86^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	4	3.1%	46^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	14	7.0%	76^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	47^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	5	12.8%	84^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	14	7.5%	72^nd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	60^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	24	14.4%	92^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	28^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	26	16.1%	94^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	12	7.9%	75^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	5	3.9%	63^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	15	12.4%	91^st
1990 Jan-Mar	60	13	21.7%	97^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	15	10.0%	87^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	6	3.3%	53^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	7	4.9%	60^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	29^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	45^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	44^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	4	2.5%	47^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	69^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	55	29.7%	97^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	22	11.2%	81^st
1992 Oct-Oct	41	4	9.8%	73^rd

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Mary Oakar [D-OH20, 1977-1992] leaves office as Representative for Ohio's 20th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Mary Oakar [D-OH20, 1977-1992] takes office as Representative for Ohio's 20th congressional district

Jan 04, 1977