Robert Young III, former Representative from Missouri's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1986	Representative	Missouri's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Young to other members of the House of Representatives in the 99^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 1977 to Oct 1986, Young missed 402 of 5,386 roll call votes, which is 7.5%. This is worse than the median of 5.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	15^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	19	7.0%	51^st
1977 Jul-Sep	195	15	7.7%	65^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	13	9.7%	72^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	149	7	4.7%	38^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	15	5.0%	36^th
1978 Jul-Sep	304	10	3.3%	26^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	37^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	16	25.8%	91^st
1979 Apr-Jun	216	34	15.7%	89^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	18	9.1%	68^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	16	8.5%	48^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	7	4.7%	27^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	8	4.1%	29^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	6	3.1%	26^th
1980 Oct-Dec	66	7	10.6%	57^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	2	2.2%	17^th
1981 Jul-Sep	104	11	10.6%	82^nd
1981 Oct-Dec	139	10	7.2%	60^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	3	6.3%	51^st
1982 Apr-Jun	119	8	6.7%	67^th
1982 Jul-Sep	192	44	22.9%	95^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	6	6.1%	39^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	17^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	14	7.7%	58^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	7	5.4%	66^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	10	7.0%	57^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	7	13.2%	75^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	19	8.6%	67^th
1984 Jul-Sep	90	9	10.0%	77^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	66^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	4	2.6%	29^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	2	2.0%	29^th
1985 Oct-Dec	147	29	19.7%	97^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	46^th
1986 Apr-Jun	127	4	3.1%	46^th
1986 Jul-Sep	200	9	4.5%	58^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th

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 Young [D-MO2, 1977-1986] leaves office as Representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Rep. Robert Young [D-MO2, 1977-1986] takes office as Representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district

Jan 04, 1977

Rep. Robert Young III

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices