William Richardson, former Representative from New Mexico's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1997	Representative	New Mexico's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Richardson to other members of the House of Representatives in the 104^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 1983 to Feb 1997, Richardson missed 291 of 7,052 roll call votes, which is 4.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1997. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	6	14.0%	76^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	10	5.5%	47^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	11^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	4	2.8%	25^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	5	2.2%	23^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	49^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	30^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	2	1.3%	14^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	56^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	15	10.1%	93^rd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	1	0.8%	15^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	10	5.0%	65^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	3	5.0%	57^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	43^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	187	11	5.9%	65^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	57^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	7^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	13	8.1%	77^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	8	5.3%	63^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	3	3.4%	58^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	6	5.7%	73^rd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	36^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	8	6.6%	73^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	5	3.3%	59^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	6	3.3%	54^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	39^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	34^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	3	4.5%	57^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	59^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	25	12.8%	91^st
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	1	0.8%	25^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	14	7.4%	79^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	46^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	2	2.1%	39^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	6	2.7%	62^nd
1994 Jul-Sep	142	6	4.2%	67^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	6	11.8%	90^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	5	1.8%	61^st
1995 Apr-Jun	189	13	6.9%	88^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	21	9.1%	92^nd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	2	1.1%	32^nd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	75^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	17	10.4%	95^th
1997 Jan-Mar	21	13	61.9%	100^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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Richardson [D-NM3, 1983-1997] leaves office as Representative for New Mexico's 3rd congressional district

Feb 13, 1997

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Richardson [D-NM3, 1983-1997] takes office as Representative for New Mexico's 3rd congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Rep. William Richardson

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices