Rep. Thomas Luken
Former Representative from Ohio's 1st District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Ohio's 1st District | |
| Representative | Ohio's 2nd District | |
| Representative | Ohio's 1st District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Luken was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Luken’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Luken to other members of the House of Representatives in the 101st 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 Luken’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5827 (101st): To address immediate problems affecting environmental cleanup activities.
- H.R. 5372 (101st): Lead Pollution Prevention Act of 1990
- H.R. 5334 (101st): Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Reauthorization Act of 1990
- H.R. 5208 (101st): Equal Treatment for Cigarettes Act of 1990
- H.R. 5075 (101st): Amtrak Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 1990
- H.R. 4369 (101st): Tourism Policy and Export Promotion Act of 1990
- H.J.Res. 469 (101st): To designate October 6, 1990, as “German-American Day”.
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Voting Record
From Jan 1973 to Oct 1990, Luken missed 1,202 of 8,276 roll call votes, which is 14.5%. 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.
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