Rep. Norman Lent

Former Representative from New York's 4^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1992	Representative	New York's 4^th District
1971-1972	Representative	New York's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Lent was a 0.750726519851 according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Lent’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Lent 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 1971 to Oct 1992, Lent missed 919 of 11,130 roll call votes, which is 8.3%. 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
1971 Jan-Mar	22	3	13.6%	66^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	17	19.1%	82^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	72	3	4.2%	35^th
1971 Oct-Dec	132	25	18.9%	83^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	1	1.6%	13^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	11	9.7%	49^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	20	19.8%	84^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	5	10.0%	47^th
1973 Jan-Mar	34	4	11.8%	69^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	23	12.2%	76^th
1973 Jul-Sep	127	6	4.7%	60^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	38	21.1%	87^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	4	5.2%	35^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	9	5.4%	36^th
1974 Jul-Sep	147	17	11.6%	80^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	7	5.0%	33^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	67	7	10.4%	80^th
1975 Apr-Jun	197	24	12.2%	83^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	146	14	9.6%	73^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	189	16	8.5%	77^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	5	4.8%	53^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	266	16	6.0%	44^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	8	2.9%	25^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	2	28.6%	80^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	8	8.0%	68^th
1977 Apr-Jun	271	13	4.8%	42^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	28	14.1%	86^th
1977 Oct-Dec	128	22	17.2%	93^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	146	9	6.2%	47^th
1978 Apr-Jun	299	22	7.4%	54^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	24	7.8%	56^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	1	1.3%	16^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	34^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	10	4.5%	37^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	23	11.7%	77^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	7	3.7%	23^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	145	17	11.7%	71^st
1980 Apr-Jun	194	12	6.2%	46^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	15	7.8%	57^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	11	16.4%	72^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	2	2.2%	19^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	51^st
1981 Oct-Dec	142	5	3.5%	30^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	12	25.0%	88^th
1982 Apr-Jun	117	3	2.6%	42^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	10	5.2%	47^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	14	14.1%	72^nd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	34^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	16	8.8%	64^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	6	4.6%	62^nd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	12	8.4%	68^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	50^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	38	17.1%	94^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	50^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	7	4.5%	48^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	58^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	6	4.1%	53^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	41^st
1986 Apr-Jun	128	9	7.0%	77^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	17	8.5%	81^st
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	47^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	5	12.8%	84^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	7	3.7%	46^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	9	9.5%	82^nd
1987 Oct-Dec	167	21	12.6%	88^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	5	10.2%	75^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	13	8.1%	75^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	5	3.3%	41^st
1988 Oct-Oct	89	6	6.7%	72^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	42^nd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	7	5.5%	79^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	14	11.6%	90^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	10	16.7%	95^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	14	9.3%	85^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	11	6.0%	77^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	5	3.5%	50^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	7	11.3%	89^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	10	7.2%	77^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	5	6.2%	64^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	9	5.6%	75^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	7	10.6%	81^st
1992 Apr-Jun	185	24	13.0%	86^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	26	13.3%	84^th
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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Norman Lent [R-NY4, 1973-1992] leaves office as Representative for New York's 4th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Norman Lent [R-NY4, 1973-1992] takes office as Representative for New York's 4th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. Norman Lent [R-NY4, 1973-1992] leaves office as Representative for New York's 5th congressional district

Oct 18, 1972

Elections and Offices

Rep. Norman Lent [R-NY4, 1973-1992] takes office as Representative for New York's 5th congressional district

Jan 21, 1971