Rep. Robert Michel
Former Representative from Illinois's 18th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Illinois's 18th District | |
| Representative | Illinois's 18th District | |
| Representative | Illinois's 18th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Michel was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Michel’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Michel to other members of the House of Representatives in the 103rd 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 Michel’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Res. 585 (103rd): Authorizing and directing the Speaker to administer the oath of office to ...
- H.R. 5300 (103rd): Affordable Health Care Now Act of 1994
- H.Res. 586 (103rd): That Members of the House express their profound thanks and appreciation to ...
- H.Res. 450 (103rd): Providing that the House make public in printed form all transcripts and ...
- H.Res. 442 (103rd): Electing Representative Lucas of Oklahoma to the Committees on Agriculture and Government ...
- H.Con.Res. 248 (103rd): Providing for the printing of eulogies and encomiums of the late President ...
- H.Res. 419 (103rd): House Administration Reform Resolution of 1994
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Voting Record
From Jan 1957 to Nov 1994, Michel missed 1,300 of 14,285 roll call votes, which is 9.1%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1994. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills