Robert Whittaker, former Representative from Kansas's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1979-1990	Representative	Kansas's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Whittaker to other members of the House of Representatives in the 101^st 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 1979 to Oct 1990, Whittaker missed 147 of 5,704 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. This is better than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1990. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	218	1	0.5%	8^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	1	0.5%	6^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	1	0.7%	5^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	1	0.5%	4^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	1	0.5%	6^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	3	4.5%	30^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Oct-Dec	140	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	9	4.7%	42^nd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	7	7.1%	47^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	3	7.0%	48^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	6	4.6%	59^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	4	2.8%	27^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	23^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	8	3.6%	34^th
1984 Jul-Sep	93	5	5.4%	61^st
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	47^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	66^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	9	5.8%	61^st
1985 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	71^st
1985 Oct-Dec	148	5	3.4%	47^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	50^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	5	3.9%	51^st
1986 Jul-Sep	201	4	2.0%	34^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	59^th
1987 Apr-Jun	184	6	3.3%	45^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	21^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	3	1.8%	15^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	6	3.7%	48^th
1988 Jul-Sep	151	3	2.0%	34^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	12	13.5%	88^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	41^st
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	34^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	2	1.7%	24^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	30^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	12	8.0%	80^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	3	1.6%	33^rd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	0	0.0%	0^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Whittaker [R-KS5, 1979-1990] leaves office as Representative for Kansas's 5th congressional district

Oct 28, 1990

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Whittaker [R-KS5, 1979-1990] takes office as Representative for Kansas's 5th congressional district

Jan 15, 1979

Rep. Robert Whittaker

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices