Rep. Philip “Phil” Crane
Former Representative from Illinois's 8th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Illinois's 8th District | |
| Representative | Illinois's 12th District | |
| Representative | Illinois's 13th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Crane was a far-right Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Crane’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Crane to other members of the House of Representatives in the 108th 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 Crane’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5387 (108th): Wauconda Technical and Environmental Remediation Act of 2004
- H.R. 5224 (108th): For the relief of Dylan Brian Benwell.
- H.Res. 821 (108th): Condemning the abduction of Dylan Benwell from the United States and calling ...
- H.R. 4931 (108th): Intelligent Vehicle Highway Safety Act of 2004
- H.R. 4840 (108th): Tax Simplification for America’s Job Creators Act of 2004
- H.R. 4488 (108th): Public Good IRA Rollover Act
- H.R. 4418 (108th): Customs Border Security and Trade Agencies Authorization Act of 2004
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Voting Record
From Dec 1969 to Dec 2004, Crane missed 1,999 of 18,334 roll call votes, which is 10.9%. This is worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2004. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills