Rep. Stephen Solarz
Former Representative from New York's 13th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | New York's 13th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Solarz was a far-left Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Solarz’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Solarz to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102nd 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 Solarz’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Con.Res. 361 (102nd): Condemning the persecution of Cuban poet Maria Elena Cruz Varela, and for ...
- H.R. 5891 (102nd): Foreign Language Satellite Training Center Act of 1992
- H.R. 5890 (102nd): Handgun Control Act of 1992
- H.Con.Res. 356 (102nd): Concerning the establishment of a United States-China Human Rights Commission.
- H.R. 5708 (102nd): Khmer Rouge Prosecution Act
- H.Con.Res. 348 (102nd): To commend the people of the Philippines for successfully conducting peaceful general ...
- H.R. 5360 (102nd): International Refugee Protection Act of 1992
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Voting Record
From Jan 1975 to Oct 1992, Solarz missed 677 of 9,384 roll call votes, which is 7.2%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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