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Rep. Calvin “Cal” Dooley

Former Representative from California’s 20^th District, Democrat

OpenSecrets Bioguide

Dooley, a Democrat, was the representative for California's 20^th congressional district from 1993 to 2004.

He was previously the representative for California's 17^th congressional district (1991-1992).

Photo of Rep. Calvin “Cal” Dooley [D-CA20, 1993-2004]

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Dooley sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 2004. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Dooley is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Enacted Legislation

Dooley was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if about one third or more of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Dooley sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (20%) Law (18%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Agriculture and Food (12%) Commerce (10%) Social Welfare (8%) Finance and Financial Sector (8%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Dooley’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1991 to Dec 2004, Dooley missed 455 of 8,012 roll call votes, which is 5.7%. This is much worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2004. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	52^nd
1991 Jul-Sep	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	1	0.6%	18^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	8	12.1%	86^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	9	4.9%	69^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	9	4.6%	69^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	1	2.4%	46^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	7	5.5%	80^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	7	3.7%	63^rd
1993 Jul-Sep	164	10	6.1%	86^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	12	9.0%	94^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	11	11.6%	91^st
1994 Apr-Jun	219	6	2.7%	59^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	5	3.5%	61^st
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	50^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	14	5.0%	87^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	11	5.8%	85^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	11	4.7%	82^nd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	3	1.6%	45^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	2	1.8%	51^st
1996 Apr-Jun	182	3	1.6%	37^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	3	1.8%	47^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	36^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	3	1.7%	45^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	7	3.0%	68^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	6	3.7%	64^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	3	3.4%	60^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	1	0.5%	19^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	3	1.5%	44^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	3	4.1%	65^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	55^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	3	1.6%	43^rd
1999 Jul-Sep	204	4	2.0%	56^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	7	4.8%	74^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	12	12.6%	91^st
2000 Apr-Jun	277	14	5.1%	75^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	81^st
2000 Oct-Dec	101	20	19.8%	85^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	1	1.3%	34^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	9	6.7%	85^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	5	3.4%	69^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	21	13.7%	96^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	6	7.6%	85^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	16	7.9%	83^rd
2002 Jul-Sep	141	17	12.1%	94^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	8	13.1%	87^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	5	5.3%	77^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	12	5.0%	75^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	19	9.8%	89^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	20	13.2%	92^nd
2004 Jan-Mar	104	19	18.3%	93^rd
2004 Apr-Jun	221	27	12.2%	92^nd
2004 Jul-Sep	161	21	13.0%	87^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	14	24.1%	92^nd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills