Sen. Roman Hruska

Former Senator from Nebraska

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1976	Senator	Nebraska
1954-1958	Senator	Nebraska
1953-1954	Representative	Nebraska's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Hruska to other members of the Senate in the 94^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 Dec 1954 to Oct 1976, Hruska missed 624 of 6,795 roll call votes, which is 9.2%. This is better than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	6	23.1%	94^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	2	5.3%	50^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	43	10	23.3%	95^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	78	2	2.6%	55^th
1958 Jul-Aug	63	5	7.9%	86^th
1959 Jan-Apr	56	1	1.8%	44^th
1959 May-Aug	125	5	4.0%	42^nd
1959 Sep-Sep	28	6	21.4%	85^th
1960 Jan-Apr	70	3	4.3%	27^th
1960 May-Aug	105	14	13.3%	79^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	116	7	6.0%	78^th
1961 Sep-Sep	34	2	5.9%	59^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	55	1	1.8%	26^th
1962 Jul-Sep	108	7	6.5%	58^th
1962 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	67	3	4.5%	58^th
1963 Jul-Sep	51	10	19.6%	87^th
1963 Oct-Dec	74	8	10.8%	73^rd
1964 Jan-Mar	55	5	9.1%	87^th
1964 Apr-Jun	132	3	2.3%	76^th
1964 Jul-Sep	92	12	13.0%	76^th
1965 Jan-Mar	29	1	3.4%	30^th
1965 Apr-Jun	102	7	6.9%	22^nd
1965 Jul-Sep	92	7	7.6%	59^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	43^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	53	3	5.7%	15^th
1966 Jul-Sep	117	3	2.6%	17^th
1966 Oct-Oct	28	13	46.4%	77^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	14	26.9%	76^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	4	5.7%	30^th
1967 Jul-Sep	76	6	7.9%	41^st
1967 Oct-Dec	106	18	17.0%	59^th
1968 Jan-Mar	65	7	10.8%	52^nd
1968 Apr-Jun	94	14	14.9%	50^th
1968 Jul-Sep	79	32	40.5%	85^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	1	4.0%	31^st
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	2	8.3%	40^th
1969 Jul-Sep	43	3	7.0%	60^th
1969 Oct-Dec	153	5	3.3%	8^th
1970 Jan-Mar	96	5	5.2%	32^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	90	7	7.8%	42^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	121	18	14.9%	38^th
1970 Oct-Dec	104	16	15.4%	45^th
1971 Feb-Mar	24	2	8.3%	34^th
1971 Apr-Jun	88	8	9.1%	26^th
1971 Jul-Sep	108	17	15.7%	58^th
1971 Oct-Dec	199	29	14.6%	61^st
1972 Jan-Mar	119	6	5.0%	21^st
1972 Apr-Jun	129	9	7.0%	23^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	206	12	5.8%	36^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	7	9.3%	43^rd
1973 Jan-Mar	67	1	1.5%	14^th
1973 Apr-Jun	179	6	3.4%	17^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	18	10.8%	67^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	2	1.2%	3^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	93	2	2.2%	16^th
1974 Apr-Jun	178	8	4.5%	26^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	4	2.9%	14^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	12	9.0%	41^st
1975 Jan-Mar	117	6	5.1%	42^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	138	13	9.4%	53^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	166	15	9.0%	58^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	16	8.9%	44^th
1976 Jan-Mar	102	19	18.6%	77^th
1976 Apr-Jun	260	41	15.8%	61^st
1976 Jul-Sep	313	67	21.4%	74^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	4	30.8%	50^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Roman Hruska [R-NE, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Nebraska

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Sen. Roman Hruska [R-NE, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Nebraska

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Sen. Roman Hruska [R-NE, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Nebraska

Aug 24, 1958

Elections and Offices

Sen. Roman Hruska [R-NE, 1959-1976] leaves office as Representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district

Dec 02, 1954

Elections and Offices

Sen. Roman Hruska [R-NE, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Nebraska

Jan 01, 1954