Norman Shumway, former Representative from California's 14th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1979-1990	Representative	California's 14^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Shumway was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Shumway’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Shumway to other members of the House of Representatives in the 101^st 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 1979 to Oct 1990, Shumway missed 236 of 5,717 roll call votes, which is 4.1%. This is better than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1990. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	33^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	220	5	2.3%	20^th
1979 Jul-Sep	196	5	2.6%	26^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	8	4.3%	26^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	46	31.3%	97^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	15	7.7%	51^st
1980 Jul-Sep	192	1	0.5%	6^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	16	23.9%	83^rd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	38^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	39^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	1	0.8%	11^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	18	9.3%	70^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	1	1.0%	8^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	13	7.1%	55^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	16	12.3%	92^nd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	13	9.1%	72^nd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	2	0.9%	8^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	17^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	52^nd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	7	4.5%	48^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	2	2.0%	32^nd
1985 Oct-Dec	148	2	1.4%	22^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	28^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	8	6.3%	73^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	201	2	1.0%	19^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	40^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	4	2.4%	18^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	56^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	1	0.6%	13^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	3	2.0%	26^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	1	0.8%	18^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	13	10.7%	85^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	3	5.0%	65^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	3	1.6%	33^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	7	4.9%	57^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. Norman Shumway [R-CA14, 1979-1990] leaves office as Representative for California's 14th congressional district

Oct 28, 1990

Elections and Offices

Rep. Norman Shumway [R-CA14, 1979-1990] takes office as Representative for California's 14th congressional district

Jan 15, 1979

Rep. Norman Shumway

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices