Rep. Robert Giaimo

Former Representative from Connecticut's 3^rd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1980	Representative	Connecticut's 3^rd District
1959-1960	Representative	Connecticut's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Giaimo was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Giaimo’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Giaimo to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Dec 1980, Giaimo missed 1,316 of 7,683 roll call votes, which is 17.1%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	56^th
1965 Apr-Jun	51	16	31.4%	98^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	5	5.1%	41^st
1965 Oct-Oct	22	2	9.1%	53^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	29	9	31.0%	95^th
1966 Apr-Jun	50	7	14.0%	67^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	6	8.3%	37^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	7	17.9%	57^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	56	2	3.6%	98^th
1967 Jul-Sep	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	97	1	1.0%	80^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	1	2.6%	84^th
1968 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	87	5	5.7%	83^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	22	5	22.7%	86^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	4	25.0%	95^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	3	10.7%	56^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	3	6.8%	46^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	15	17.0%	75^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	38^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	31	41.9%	91^st
1970 Jul-Sep	76	12	15.8%	68^th
1970 Oct-Dec	76	23	30.3%	86^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	3	13.6%	72^nd
1971 Apr-Jun	88	19	21.6%	83^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	71	5	7.0%	50^th
1971 Oct-Dec	133	23	17.3%	73^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	4	6.3%	39^th
1972 Apr-Jun	112	2	1.8%	17^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	14	13.9%	69^th
1972 Oct-Oct	44	32	72.7%	97^th
1973 Jan-Mar	35	5	14.3%	75^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	13	6.9%	45^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	12	9.2%	74^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	11	6.1%	48^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	6	7.8%	48^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	13	7.7%	42^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	147	20	13.6%	87^th
1974 Oct-Dec	137	44	32.1%	96^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	17^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	22	11.1%	78^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	14	9.6%	75^th
1975 Oct-Dec	186	14	7.5%	68^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	12	11.3%	78^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	109	41.4%	98^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	52	18.6%	90^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	72^nd
1977 Jan-Mar	100	12	12.0%	83^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	273	42	15.4%	86^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	39	19.7%	91^st
1977 Oct-Dec	134	32	23.9%	97^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	20	13.4%	78^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	51	17.0%	85^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	36	11.7%	69^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	25	33.3%	94^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	21	33.3%	95^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	61	27.7%	96^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	53	26.8%	95^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	73	38.4%	97^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	50	33.8%	94^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	89	45.6%	97^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	74	38.5%	96^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	26	38.8%	91^st

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. Robert Giaimo [D-CT3, 1961-1980] leaves office as Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Giaimo [D-CT3, 1961-1980] takes office as Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district

Jan 03, 1961

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Giaimo [D-CT3, 1961-1980] leaves office as Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district

Sep 01, 1960

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Giaimo [D-CT3, 1961-1980] takes office as Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district

Jan 07, 1959