William Cotter, former Representative from Connecticut's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1982	Representative	Connecticut's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Cotter 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 1971 to Aug 1981, Cotter missed 1,053 of 5,895 roll call votes, which is 17.9%. This is worse than the median of 7.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1981. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	57^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	14	15.6%	69^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	8	11.1%	63^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	132	34	25.8%	88^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	3	4.7%	31^st
1972 Apr-Jun	113	11	9.7%	44^th
1972 Jul-Sep	99	13	13.1%	68^th
1972 Oct-Oct	47	14	29.8%	84^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	45^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	26	13.8%	79^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	17	13.1%	84^th
1973 Oct-Dec	178	12	6.7%	56^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	12	15.6%	84^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	24	14.3%	75^th
1974 Jul-Sep	147	19	12.9%	89^th
1974 Oct-Dec	136	20	14.7%	74^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	62^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	196	19	9.7%	73^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	143	4	2.8%	32^nd
1975 Oct-Dec	189	9	4.8%	54^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	11	10.5%	74^th
1976 Apr-Jun	264	37	14.0%	78^th
1976 Jul-Sep	278	44	15.8%	87^th
1976 Oct-Oct	6	6	100.0%	94^th
1977 Jan-Mar	96	23	24.0%	97^th
1977 Apr-Jun	268	20	7.5%	58^th
1977 Jul-Sep	190	65	34.2%	98^th
1977 Oct-Dec	129	29	22.5%	97^th
1978 Jan-Mar	148	24	16.2%	86^th
1978 Apr-Jun	298	56	18.8%	87^th
1978 Jul-Sep	299	61	20.4%	91^st
1978 Oct-Oct	75	10	13.3%	79^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	17	27.0%	91^st
1979 Apr-Jun	220	19	8.6%	63^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	198	38	19.2%	92^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	188	41	21.8%	89^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	11	7.4%	45^th
1980 Apr-Jun	194	29	14.9%	82^nd
1980 Jul-Sep	190	47	24.7%	95^th
1980 Oct-Dec	64	26	40.6%	96^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	8	53.3%	99^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	89	100.0%	99^th
1981 Jul-Sep	74	74	100.0%	100^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. William Cotter [D-CT1, 1971-1982] leaves office as Representative for Connecticut's 1st congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Cotter [D-CT1, 1971-1982] takes office as Representative for Connecticut's 1st congressional district

Jan 21, 1971

Rep. William Cotter

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices