Rep. Thomas Railsback

Former Representative from Illinois's 19^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1967-1982	Representative	Illinois's 19^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Railsback was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Railsback’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Railsback to other members of the House of Representatives in the 97^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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1967 to Dec 1982, Railsback missed 1,033 of 7,457 roll call votes, which is 13.9%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	78	1	1.3%	46^th
1968 Jul-Sep	90	1	1.1%	36^th
1968 Oct-Oct	22	6	27.3%	91^st
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	56^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	7	25.0%	91^st
1969 Jul-Sep	43	3	7.0%	52^nd
1969 Oct-Dec	85	13	15.3%	74^th
1970 Jan-Mar	34	3	8.8%	56^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	24	32.4%	87^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	6	7.9%	37^th
1970 Oct-Dec	79	17	21.5%	73^rd
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	87	23	26.4%	93^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	72	9	12.5%	69^th
1971 Oct-Dec	132	29	22.0%	84^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	10	15.6%	75^th
1972 Apr-Jun	113	20	17.7%	72^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	98	25	25.5%	88^th
1972 Oct-Oct	49	7	14.3%	59^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	57^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	37	19.7%	89^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	59^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	26	14.4%	85^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	7	9.1%	55^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	14	8.3%	44^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	15	10.1%	82^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	140	18	12.9%	68^th
1975 Jan-Mar	66	13	19.7%	94^th
1975 Apr-Jun	196	35	17.9%	95^th
1975 Jul-Sep	142	14	9.9%	75^th
1975 Oct-Dec	188	20	10.6%	83^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	105	7	6.7%	60^th
1976 Apr-Jun	266	53	19.9%	89^th
1976 Jul-Sep	274	18	6.6%	57^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	72^nd
1977 Jan-Mar	96	27	28.1%	98^th
1977 Apr-Jun	267	61	22.8%	96^th
1977 Jul-Sep	196	20	10.2%	77^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	20	15.0%	87^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	1	0.7%	6^th
1978 Apr-Jun	299	32	10.7%	67^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	37	12.1%	70^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	14	18.7%	88^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	4	6.3%	65^th
1979 Apr-Jun	219	20	9.1%	67^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	30	15.2%	86^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	24	12.7%	70^th
1980 Jan-Mar	147	18	12.2%	71^st
1980 Apr-Jun	195	43	22.1%	93^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	191	37	19.4%	90^th
1980 Oct-Dec	66	9	13.6%	62^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	15	16.9%	84^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	12	11.3%	80^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	11	7.7%	57^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	74^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	8	6.7%	61^st
1982 Jul-Sep	192	37	19.3%	87^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	50	50.5%	96^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Thomas Railsback [R-IL19, 1967-1982] leaves office as Representative for Illinois's 19th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Thomas Railsback [R-IL19, 1967-1982] takes office as Representative for Illinois's 19th congressional district

Jan 10, 1967