Rep. Ronald “Ron” Paul

Former Representative from Texas's 14^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1997-2013	Representative	Texas's 14^th District
1979-1984	Representative	Texas's 22^nd District
1975-1976	Representative	Texas's 22^nd District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Paul was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Paul’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Paul to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112^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

Some of Paul’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Apr 1976 to Jan 2013, Paul missed 1,837 of 14,443 roll call votes, which is 12.7%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1976 Apr-Jun	244	19	7.8%	46^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	9	3.2%	38^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	38^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	6	2.7%	25^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	21^st
1979 Oct-Dec	188	5	2.7%	17^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	6	4.1%	21^st
1980 Apr-Jun	196	3	1.5%	13^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	8	4.2%	38^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	46^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	88	2	2.3%	18^th
1981 Jul-Sep	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Oct-Dec	136	25	18.4%	91^st
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	2	1.7%	29^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	8	4.1%	44^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	7	7.1%	53^rd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	33^rd
1983 Apr-Jun	179	15	8.4%	70^th
1983 Jul-Sep	126	5	4.0%	54^th
1983 Oct-Nov	141	70	49.6%	98^th
1984 Jan-Mar	46	32	69.6%	98^th
1984 Apr-Jun	208	78	37.5%	96^th
1984 Jul-Sep	93	10	10.8%	80^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	13	37.1%	96^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	1	0.6%	17^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	2	1.2%	31^st
1998 Jan-Mar	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	2	1.1%	34^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	4	2.0%	47^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	2	2.7%	58^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	53^rd
1999 Apr-Jun	184	1	0.5%	16^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	5	2.5%	67^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	5	3.4%	63^rd
2000 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	53^rd
2000 Apr-Jun	277	3	1.1%	32^nd
2000 Jul-Sep	130	16	12.3%	93^rd
2000 Oct-Dec	101	17	16.8%	84^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	1	1.3%	40^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	4	3.0%	61^st
2001 Jul-Sep	149	26	17.4%	99^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	1	1.3%	34^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	4	2.0%	43^rd
2002 Jul-Sep	141	8	5.7%	73^rd
2002 Oct-Nov	61	3	4.9%	68^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	32	13.4%	97^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	9	4.7%	76^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	13	8.6%	84^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	1	1.0%	19^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	8	3.6%	62^nd
2004 Jul-Sep	161	32	19.9%	96^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	34	58.6%	99^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	2	2.2%	38^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	6	2.2%	57^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	16	11.0%	92^nd
2005 Oct-Dec	163	12	7.4%	84^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	21	7.6%	92^nd
2006 Jul-Sep	159	7	4.4%	77^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	20	74.1%	99^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	20	9.4%	94^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	90	22.9%	98^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	74	23.3%	98^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	158	60.1%	100^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	25	16.8%	94^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	68	21.2%	98^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	25	12.2%	94^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	3	1.7%	43^rd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	20	6.6%	84^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	50	18.7%	99^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	16	6.5%	81^st
2010 Jan-Mar	195	13	6.7%	79^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	20	9.1%	89^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	1	0.7%	22^nd
2010 Nov-Dec	99	10	10.1%	81^st
2011 Jan-Mar	212	51	24.1%	98^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	38	13.5%	95^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	47	19.0%	99^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	145	69.7%	99^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	136	90.1%	100^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	136	45.5%	99^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	13	8.6%	87^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	15	29.4%	94^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	5	100.0%	99^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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills