Rep. Robert Livingston Jr.

Former Representative from Louisiana's 1^st District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1999	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Livingston to other members of the House of Representatives in the 105^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 Sep 1977 to Feb 1999, Livingston missed 865 of 11,335 roll call votes, which is 7.6%. This is worse than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1999. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jul-Sep	88	8	9.1%	69^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	11	8.5%	69^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	8	5.4%	38^th
1978 Apr-Jun	292	36	12.3%	73^rd
1978 Jul-Sep	307	20	6.5%	44^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	4	5.3%	40^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	215	16	7.4%	63^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	194	20	10.3%	75^th
1979 Oct-Dec	188	21	11.2%	64^th
1980 Jan-Mar	146	17	11.6%	70^th
1980 Apr-Jun	193	7	3.6%	34^th
1980 Jul-Sep	186	18	9.7%	64^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	46^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	83	4	4.8%	50^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	6	5.7%	59^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	5	3.5%	36^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	5	10.4%	72^nd
1982 Apr-Jun	119	10	8.4%	73^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	8	4.1%	38^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	7	7.1%	48^th
1983 Jan-Mar	42	4	9.5%	65^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	42^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	68^th
1983 Oct-Nov	142	24	16.9%	94^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	37^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	9	4.0%	38^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	17^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	19^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	7	4.5%	54^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	14	9.5%	90^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	17	27.9%	95^th
1986 Apr-Jun	126	1	0.8%	27^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	15	7.5%	75^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	13	33.3%	96^th
1987 Apr-Jun	183	87	47.5%	98^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	45	47.9%	98^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	55	32.9%	99^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	28^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	5	3.1%	49^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	30	19.7%	94^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	17	19.1%	93^rd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	57^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	2	1.9%	34^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	8	6.3%	86^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	1	0.8%	13^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	4	2.7%	49^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	8	4.4%	67^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	9	6.3%	69^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	11	7.9%	86^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	4	4.9%	61^st
1991 Oct-Nov	162	1	0.6%	19^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	7	10.6%	86^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	29	15.7%	95^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	27	13.8%	94^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	12	29.3%	97^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	4	3.1%	60^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	13	6.8%	78^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	3	2.2%	60^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	10	10.5%	90^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	17	7.8%	89^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	6	4.2%	68^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	2	3.9%	70^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	8	2.9%	76^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	7	3.7%	72^nd
1995 Jul-Sep	232	4	1.7%	50^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	6	3.2%	69^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	8	7.3%	87^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	5	2.7%	57^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	6	3.7%	69^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	37^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	6	3.4%	69^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	6	2.6%	62^nd
1997 Oct-Nov	163	2	1.2%	30^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	5	5.6%	77^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	69^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	3	1.5%	43^rd
1998 Oct-Dec	74	4	5.4%	75^th
1999 Jan-Mar	28	8	28.6%	99^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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Livingston [R-LA1, 1977-1999] leaves office as Representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district

Mar 01, 1999

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Livingston [R-LA1, 1977-1999] takes office as Representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district

Jan 04, 1977