Rep. Matthew Rinaldo

Former Representative from New Jersey's 7^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1992	Representative	New Jersey's 7^th District
1973-1982	Representative	New Jersey's 12^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Rinaldo 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 1973 to Oct 1992, Rinaldo missed 316 of 10,517 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is better 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
1973 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	69^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	4	2.2%	20^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	5	6.5%	42^nd
1974 Apr-Jun	169	12	7.1%	40^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	2	1.4%	15^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	2	1.4%	9^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	47^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	12	6.1%	58^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	5	3.4%	33^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	191	6	3.1%	37^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	4	3.8%	41^st
1976 Apr-Jun	266	9	3.4%	20^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	9	3.2%	30^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	6	2.2%	23^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	197	7	3.6%	43^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	134	6	4.5%	45^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	2	1.3%	14^th
1978 Apr-Jun	299	2	0.7%	7^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	9	2.9%	24^th
1978 Oct-Oct	74	3	4.1%	47^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	5	2.3%	22^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	197	6	3.0%	32^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	190	5	2.6%	17^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	1	0.7%	5^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	6	3.1%	20^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	11	5.7%	42^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	2	3.0%	20^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	3	3.4%	27^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	4	3.8%	45^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	9	6.3%	53^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	27^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	3	2.5%	32^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	13	6.7%	59^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	4	4.0%	31^st
1983 Jan-Mar	43	4	9.3%	64^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	5	2.7%	26^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	52^nd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	10	7.0%	60^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	24^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	1	0.4%	4^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	11	11.6%	85^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	49^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	66^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	8	5.2%	56^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	70^th
1985 Oct-Dec	147	7	4.8%	64^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	5	8.2%	57^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	4	3.1%	46^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	4	2.0%	35^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	3	5.0%	56^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	1	0.5%	8^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	22^nd
1987 Oct-Dec	167	6	3.6%	26^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	28^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	4	2.6%	35^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	5	4.8%	63^rd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	19^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	1	0.8%	13^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	3	5.0%	67^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	29^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	3	1.6%	35^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	2	1.4%	25^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	29^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	1	0.6%	15^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	5	2.7%	37^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	5	2.6%	42^nd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	2	4.9%	51^st

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. Matthew Rinaldo [R-NJ7, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 7th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Matthew Rinaldo [R-NJ7, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for New Jersey's 7th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Matthew Rinaldo [R-NJ7, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Matthew Rinaldo [R-NJ7, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973