Tim Carter, former Representative from Kentucky's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1965-1980	Representative	Kentucky's 5^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Carter to other members of the House of Representatives in the 96^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 1965 to Dec 1980, Carter missed 655 of 7,006 roll call votes, which is 9.3%. This is worse than the median of 7.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1965 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	56^th
1965 Apr-Jun	50	1	2.0%	23^rd
1965 Jul-Sep	92	12	13.0%	81^st
1965 Oct-Oct	19	5	26.3%	87^th
1966 Jan-Mar	29	5	17.2%	86^th
1966 Apr-Jun	49	8	16.3%	75^th
1966 Jul-Sep	63	16	25.4%	81^st
1966 Oct-Oct	36	21	58.3%	81^st
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	58^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	95	1	1.1%	85^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	72	2	2.8%	90^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	2	2.2%	46^th
1968 Oct-Oct	23	1	4.3%	51^st
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	4	14.8%	78^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	25^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	2	2.3%	15^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	3	8.6%	51^st
1970 Apr-Jun	74	20	27.0%	81^st
1970 Jul-Sep	76	7	9.2%	41^st
1970 Oct-Dec	80	4	5.0%	20^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	34^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	4	4.5%	17^th
1971 Jul-Sep	69	17	24.6%	92^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	133	4	3.0%	14^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	12	18.8%	83^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	113	5	4.4%	21^st
1972 Jul-Sep	100	23	23.0%	86^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	1	2.8%	26^th
1973 Apr-Jun	184	59	32.1%	95^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	10	7.7%	68^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	2	1.1%	13^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	3	3.9%	26^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	18	10.7%	55^th
1974 Jul-Sep	147	19	12.9%	86^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	11	7.9%	47^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	17^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	6	3.0%	29^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	7	4.8%	45^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	3	1.6%	18^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	24^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	43	16.3%	82^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	277	34	12.3%	78^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	97	6	6.2%	62^nd
1977 Apr-Jun	270	28	10.4%	73^rd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	3	1.5%	18^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	9	6.9%	59^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	1	0.7%	5^th
1978 Apr-Jun	295	53	18.0%	86^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	7	11.3%	73^rd
1979 Apr-Jun	217	26	12.0%	74^th
1979 Jul-Sep	187	78	41.7%	98^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	5	2.6%	16^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	6	4.1%	23^rd
1980 Apr-Jun	196	1	0.5%	4^th
1980 Jul-Sep	187	23	12.3%	69^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	6	9.0%	42^nd

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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Tim Carter [R-KY5, 1965-1980] leaves office as Representative for Kentucky's 5th congressional district

Dec 16, 1980

Elections and Offices

Rep. Tim Carter [R-KY5, 1965-1980] takes office as Representative for Kentucky's 5th congressional district

Jan 04, 1965

Rep. Tim Carter

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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