William Paxon, former Representative from New York's 27th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1993-1998	Representative	New York's 27^th District
1989-1992	Representative	New York's 31^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Paxon to other members of the House of Representatives in the 105^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 1989 to Dec 1998, Paxon missed 140 of 5,485 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. This is better than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1998. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	36^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	5	4.1%	55^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	16^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	11	6.0%	78^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	1	0.7%	20^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	3	2.2%	38^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	48^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	4	2.5%	52^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	1	1.5%	31^st
1992 Apr-Jun	185	1	0.5%	12^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	1	0.5%	14^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	2	1.6%	39^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	1	0.5%	14^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	1	0.7%	19^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	1	0.4%	19^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	5	2.6%	61^st
1995 Jul-Sep	232	2	0.9%	31^st
1995 Oct-Dec	185	4	2.2%	52^nd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	32	17.6%	98^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	3	1.8%	48^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	36^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	4	2.3%	56^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	2	0.9%	27^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	10	11.2%	87^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	26	14.1%	94^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	10	5.0%	76^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills