Rep. William Goodling

Former Representative from Pennsylvania's 19^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-2000	Representative	Pennsylvania's 19^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Goodling was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Goodling’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Goodling to other members of the House of Representatives in the 106^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 1975 to Dec 2000, Goodling missed 882 of 14,291 roll call votes, which is 6.2%. This is worse than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2000. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	12^th
1975 Apr-Jun	198	8	4.0%	48^th
1975 Jul-Sep	145	4	2.8%	21^st
1975 Oct-Dec	189	15	7.9%	67^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	15^th
1976 Apr-Jun	266	17	6.4%	38^th
1976 Jul-Sep	280	13	4.6%	44^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	2	28.6%	74^th
1977 Jan-Mar	99	7	7.1%	68^th
1977 Apr-Jun	271	26	9.6%	70^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	16	8.1%	67^th
1977 Oct-Dec	134	19	14.2%	84^th
1978 Jan-Mar	149	19	12.8%	78^th
1978 Apr-Jun	297	32	10.8%	67^th
1978 Jul-Sep	305	44	14.4%	76^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	8	10.7%	67^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	58^th
1979 Apr-Jun	217	38	17.5%	88^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	32	16.2%	86^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	31	16.4%	76^th
1980 Jan-Mar	146	29	19.9%	87^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	15	7.7%	51^st
1980 Jul-Sep	192	11	5.7%	41^st
1980 Oct-Dec	67	3	4.5%	28^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	7	7.9%	67^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	18	17.0%	93^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	142	21	14.8%	86^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	6	12.5%	76^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	6	5.0%	58^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	8	4.1%	38^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	7	7.1%	48^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	6	14.0%	77^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	19	10.4%	75^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	72^nd
1983 Oct-Nov	143	13	9.1%	73^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	52	9	17.3%	89^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	12	5.4%	50^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	32^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	57^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	34^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	17	11.0%	88^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Oct-Dec	147	8	5.4%	69^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	42^nd
1986 Apr-Jun	126	1	0.8%	27^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	5	2.5%	47^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	3	5.0%	60^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	5	2.7%	41^st
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	65^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	12	7.2%	58^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	41^st
1988 Apr-Jun	161	8	5.0%	62^nd
1988 Jul-Sep	152	5	3.3%	47^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	10	11.2%	82^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	84^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	18	17.1%	98^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	3	2.3%	49^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	6	5.0%	63^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	57^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	9	6.0%	80^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	11	6.0%	77^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	12	8.4%	79^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	3	4.8%	65^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	10	7.2%	82^nd
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	49^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	9	5.6%	78^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	4	2.2%	36^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	3	1.5%	39^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	66^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	1	0.8%	26^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	5	2.6%	50^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	3	1.8%	52^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	47^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	65^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	38^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	4	2.8%	52^nd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	4	7.8%	87^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	2	0.7%	35^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	6	3.2%	67^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	18	7.8%	89^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	4	2.2%	54^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	3	2.7%	58^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	5	2.7%	57^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	3	1.8%	48^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	37^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	3	1.7%	47^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	5	2.2%	55^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	5	3.1%	57^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	27^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	18	9.7%	91^st
1998 Jul-Sep	199	4	2.0%	50^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	2	2.7%	58^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	6	7.8%	89^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	3	1.5%	44^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	6	4.1%	68^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	6	6.3%	68^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	20	7.2%	82^nd
2000 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	52^nd
2000 Oct-Dec	101	10	9.9%	63^rd

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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Goodling [R-PA19, 1975-2000] leaves office as Representative for Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district

Dec 15, 2000

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Goodling [R-PA19, 1975-2000] takes office as Representative for Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district

Jan 14, 1975