Ronald Coleman, former Representative from Texas's 16th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1996	Representative	Texas's 16^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Coleman to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104^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 1983 to Sep 1996, Coleman missed 268 of 7,028 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	17^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	11	6.0%	52^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	47^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	3	2.1%	22^nd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	24^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	4	1.8%	16^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	9	9.5%	78^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	6	16.7%	82^nd
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	2	1.3%	14^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	8	5.4%	65^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	2	3.3%	30^th
1986 Apr-Jun	127	2	1.6%	41^st
1986 Jul-Sep	201	3	1.5%	34^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	3	7.7%	72^nd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	2	1.1%	16^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	23^rd
1987 Oct-Dec	167	4	2.4%	18^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	38^th
1988 Apr-Jun	160	2	1.3%	29^th
1988 Jul-Sep	151	12	7.9%	77^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	1	1.1%	38^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	7	50.0%	99^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	1	1.0%	19^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	19^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	5	4.1%	55^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	58^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	11	7.3%	81^st
1990 Jul-Sep	183	1	0.5%	18^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	1	0.7%	19^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	5	3.6%	58^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	12^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	27	40.9%	100^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	2	1.1%	22^nd
1992 Jul-Sep	196	6	3.1%	53^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	8	19.5%	93^rd
1993 Jan-Mar	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	3	1.6%	33^rd
1993 Jul-Sep	164	11	6.7%	86^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	12	12.6%	91^st
1994 Apr-Jun	219	5	2.3%	51^st
1994 Jul-Sep	142	6	4.2%	65^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	5	1.8%	59^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	10	5.3%	79^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	3	1.3%	40^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	5	2.7%	57^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	3	2.7%	53^rd
1996 Apr-Jun	182	20	11.0%	91^st
1996 Jul-Sep	163	23	14.1%	95^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ronald Coleman [D-TX16, 1983-1996] leaves office as Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district

Oct 04, 1996

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ronald Coleman [D-TX16, 1983-1996] takes office as Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Rep. Ronald Coleman

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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