Thomas Dodd, former Senator from Connecticut

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1971	Senator	Connecticut
1953-1956	Representative	Connecticut's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Dec 1970, Dodd missed 742 of 2,973 roll call votes, which is 25.0%. This is worse than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1970. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	125	26	20.8%	96^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	71	40	56.3%	98^th
1960 May-Aug	118	3	2.5%	38^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	29	1	3.4%	71^st
1961 May-Aug	125	14	11.2%	92^nd
1961 Sep-Sep	33	2	6.1%	65^th
1962 Jan-Mar	18	2	11.1%	82^nd
1962 Apr-Jun	59	7	11.9%	80^th
1962 Jul-Sep	112	7	6.3%	53^rd
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	66	5	7.6%	71^st
1963 Jul-Sep	50	7	14.0%	76^th
1963 Oct-Dec	79	8	10.1%	71^st
1964 Jan-Mar	57	7	12.3%	90^th
1964 Apr-Jun	135	1	0.7%	39^th
1964 Jul-Sep	104	4	3.8%	41^st
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	30	6	20.0%	73^rd
1965 Apr-Jun	98	22	22.4%	89^th
1965 Jul-Sep	89	15	16.9%	84^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	3	20.0%	53^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	25	8	32.0%	91^st
1966 Apr-Jun	54	32	59.3%	99^th
1966 Jul-Sep	109	36	33.0%	94^th
1966 Oct-Oct	34	1	2.9%	17^th
1967 Jan-Mar	48	6	12.5%	45^th
1967 Apr-Jun	69	22	31.9%	92^nd
1967 Jul-Sep	75	30	40.0%	95^th
1967 Oct-Dec	108	92	85.2%	99^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	88	22	25.0%	70^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	6	6.7%	25^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	1	3.7%	27^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	1	4.2%	30^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	2	4.5%	44^th
1969 Oct-Dec	155	10	6.5%	29^th
1970 Jan-Mar	92	49	53.3%	93^rd
1970 Apr-Jun	89	74	83.1%	97^th
1970 Jul-Sep	121	83	68.6%	96^th
1970 Oct-Dec	104	87	83.7%	97^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