Rep. William Lehman

Former Representative from Florida's 17^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1992	Representative	Florida's 17^th District
1973-1982	Representative	Florida's 13^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Lehman to other members of the House of Representatives in the 102^nd 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 1973 to Oct 1992, Lehman missed 1,102 of 10,479 roll call votes, which is 10.5%. This is worse than the median of 4.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	15	7.9%	52^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	42^nd
1973 Oct-Dec	179	18	10.1%	76^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	11	14.3%	75^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	27	16.0%	81^st
1974 Jul-Sep	146	38	26.0%	94^th
1974 Oct-Dec	140	15	10.7%	67^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	47^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	3	1.5%	11^th
1975 Jul-Sep	137	13	9.5%	72^nd
1975 Oct-Dec	191	8	4.2%	47^th
1976 Jan-Mar	105	19	18.1%	90^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	10	3.7%	22^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	273	62	22.7%	93^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	2	2.0%	30^th
1977 Apr-Jun	272	18	6.6%	52^nd
1977 Jul-Sep	198	42	21.2%	95^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	5	3.8%	45^th
1978 Jan-Mar	140	24	17.1%	90^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	24	8.0%	57^th
1978 Jul-Sep	307	58	18.9%	88^th
1978 Oct-Oct	75	25	33.3%	94^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	8	12.9%	80^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	20	9.1%	70^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	5	2.5%	21^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	19	10.0%	57^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	6	4.1%	26^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	14	7.2%	51^st
1980 Jul-Sep	191	19	9.9%	68^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	10	14.9%	68^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	84	13	15.5%	86^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	1	0.9%	15^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	20	14.1%	83^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	41^st
1982 Apr-Jun	119	1	0.8%	10^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	20	10.4%	75^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	91	91.9%	100^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	5	11.6%	70^th
1983 Apr-Jun	180	29	16.1%	91^st
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	12^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	12	8.4%	68^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	58^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	15	6.7%	56^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	15	15.8%	90^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	4	11.1%	71^st
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jul-Sep	100	3	3.0%	50^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	13	8.8%	83^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	1	1.6%	19^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	2	1.6%	28^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	12	6.0%	68^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	3	5.0%	56^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	185	8	4.3%	54^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	60^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	4	2.4%	18^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	1	0.7%	9^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	1	1.1%	36^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	4	3.8%	54^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	35^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	12	9.9%	83^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	3	2.0%	41^st
1990 Jul-Sep	183	4	2.2%	40^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	7	4.9%	60^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	86	61.9%	99^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	27	33.3%	98^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	19	11.7%	92^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	11	16.7%	91^st
1992 Apr-Jun	185	34	18.4%	93^rd
1992 Jul-Sep	196	51	26.0%	93^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	12	29.3%	93^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Lehman [D-FL17, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 17th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Lehman [D-FL17, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for Florida's 17th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Lehman [D-FL17, 1983-1992] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 13th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Lehman [D-FL17, 1983-1992] takes office as Representative for Florida's 13th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973