Ronnie Flippo, former Representative from Alabama's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1977-1990	Representative	Alabama's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Flippo was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Flippo’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Flippo 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 1977 to Oct 1990, Flippo missed 998 of 7,247 roll call votes, which is 13.8%. This is worse 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
1977 Jan-Mar	100	13	13.0%	84^th
1977 Apr-Jun	271	132	48.7%	98^th
1977 Jul-Sep	197	109	55.3%	99^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	11	7.4%	55^th
1978 Apr-Jun	299	15	5.0%	35^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	11	3.6%	28^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	38^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	4	6.3%	68^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	19	8.6%	65^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	12	6.1%	54^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	28	14.7%	75^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	15	10.1%	60^th
1980 Apr-Jun	196	38	19.4%	90^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	5	2.6%	25^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	3	4.5%	30^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	19	21.3%	92^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	105	11	10.5%	82^nd
1981 Oct-Dec	142	9	6.3%	53^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	13	27.1%	89^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	43^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	19	9.8%	73^rd
1982 Oct-Dec	98	13	13.3%	73^rd
1983 Jan-Mar	42	2	4.8%	46^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	14	7.7%	58^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	12	9.2%	86^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	10	7.0%	58^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	5	9.4%	66^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	10	4.5%	39^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	19	20.0%	93^rd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	28^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	21^st
1985 Apr-Jun	153	15	9.8%	83^rd
1985 Jul-Sep	101	6	5.9%	65^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	7	4.7%	58^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	11	18.0%	86^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	8	6.3%	73^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	201	55	27.4%	99^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	5	8.3%	73^rd
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	60^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	16	8.6%	78^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	70^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	11	6.6%	53^rd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	7	14.3%	86^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	14	8.7%	78^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	21	13.8%	88^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	5	5.6%	64^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	104	5	4.8%	67^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	34^th
1989 Oct-Nov	118	27	22.9%	97^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	34	56.7%	99^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	102	68.0%	100^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	40	21.9%	96^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	19	13.3%	90^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. Ronnie Flippo [D-AL5, 1977-1990] leaves office as Representative for Alabama's 5th congressional district

Oct 28, 1990

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ronnie Flippo [D-AL5, 1977-1990] takes office as Representative for Alabama's 5th congressional district

Jan 04, 1977

Rep. Ronnie Flippo

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices