Rep. Paul “Pete” McCloskey Jr.

Former Representative from California's 12^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1982	Representative	California's 12^th District
1973-1974	Representative	California's 17^th District
1967-1972	Representative	California's 11^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare McCloskey to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^th 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

Some of McCloskey’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Dec 1967 to Dec 1982, McCloskey missed 1,491 of 7,196 roll call votes, which is 20.7%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Oct-Dec	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	1	1.3%	46^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	1	1.1%	22^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	4	14.3%	72^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	3	6.7%	44^th
1969 Oct-Dec	87	18	20.7%	86^th
1970 Jan-Mar	34	12	35.3%	92^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	73	19	26.0%	81^st
1970 Jul-Sep	76	6	7.9%	37^th
1970 Oct-Dec	80	8	10.0%	38^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	57^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	17	18.9%	80^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	17	23.6%	91^st
1971 Oct-Dec	132	50	37.9%	96^th
1972 Jan-Mar	59	23	39.0%	94^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	51	45.5%	96^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	15	15.0%	70^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	3	6.0%	30^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	6	16.7%	78^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	12	6.3%	42^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	11^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	6	3.3%	29^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	11	14.3%	75^th
1974 Apr-Jun	167	48	28.7%	95^th
1974 Jul-Sep	144	11	7.6%	73^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	139	20	14.4%	73^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	64	14	21.9%	96^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	12	6.1%	55^th
1975 Jul-Sep	144	23	16.0%	90^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	26	13.6%	90^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	20	19.0%	92^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	265	70	26.4%	95^th
1976 Jul-Sep	277	52	18.8%	90^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	10	10.0%	78^th
1977 Apr-Jun	270	30	11.1%	78^th
1977 Jul-Sep	197	26	13.2%	84^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	24	18.3%	92^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	149	32	21.5%	95^th
1978 Apr-Jun	294	93	31.6%	96^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	29	9.4%	60^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	1	1.3%	13^th
1979 Jan-Mar	60	16	26.7%	91^st
1979 Apr-Jun	217	19	8.8%	65^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	29	14.7%	85^th
1979 Oct-Dec	185	68	36.8%	98^th
1980 Jan-Mar	143	80	55.9%	99^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	35	17.9%	89^th
1980 Jul-Sep	189	46	24.3%	94^th
1980 Oct-Dec	64	39	60.9%	98^th
1981 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	88	9	10.2%	69^th
1981 Jul-Sep	103	35	34.0%	98^th
1981 Oct-Dec	136	96	70.6%	100^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	34	70.8%	99^th
1982 Apr-Jun	117	35	29.9%	94^th
1982 Jul-Sep	191	76	39.8%	95^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	47	47.5%	94^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

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. Paul “Pete” McCloskey [R-CA12, 1975-1982] leaves office as Representative for California's 12th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Paul “Pete” McCloskey [R-CA12, 1975-1982] takes office as Representative for California's 12th congressional district

Jan 14, 1975

Elections and Offices

Rep. Paul “Pete” McCloskey [R-CA12, 1975-1982] leaves office as Representative for California's 17th congressional district

Dec 20, 1974

Elections and Offices

Rep. Paul “Pete” McCloskey [R-CA12, 1975-1982] takes office as Representative for California's 17th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. Paul “Pete” McCloskey [R-CA12, 1975-1982] leaves office as Representative for California's 11th congressional district

Oct 18, 1972