Rep. Richard Nolan

District:: Minnesota - District 8
Party:: Democrat

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2013-2015	Representative	Minnesota's 8^th District
1975-1980	Representative	Minnesota's 6^th District

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Track Him

Official Website: http://nolan.house.gov
@usrepricknolan

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Committee Membership

Richard Nolan sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Agriculture
- Member, Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Member, Subcommittee on Aviation
- Member, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management
- Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
- Member, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1975 to May 2013, Nolan missed 706 of 4,224 roll call votes, which is 16.7%. This is worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	8^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	5	2.5%	17^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	8	5.5%	25^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	7	3.7%	33^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	15	14.2%	83^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	266	18	6.8%	42^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	279	32	11.5%	50^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	7	7.0%	47^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	27	9.9%	53^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	197	39	19.8%	80^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	11	8.2%	40^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	25	16.8%	73^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	44	14.7%	60^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	50	16.2%	60^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	7	9.3%	53^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	8	12.7%	65^th
1979 Apr-Jun	217	55	25.3%	88^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	50	25.4%	82^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	189	61	32.3%	88^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	51	34.5%	94^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	74	37.8%	94^th
1980 Jul-Sep	191	71	37.2%	88^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	37	55.2%	88^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-May	71	3	4.2%	61^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
New Member Pictorial Directory (113th), Committee on House Administration for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills