Cecil Heftel, former Representative for Hawaii's 1st Congressional District

Heftel was the representative for Hawaii’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1977 to 1986.

Photo of Rep. Cecil Heftel [D-HI1, 1977-1986]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Heftel is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1986 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Heftel sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 5, 1981 to Oct 18, 1986. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Heftel sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (33%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Energy (15%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%) Social Welfare (7%) Private Legislation (7%) Health (6%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1977 to Jun 1986, Heftel missed 1,107 of 5,160 roll call votes, which is 21.5%. This is much worse than the median of 6.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1977 Jan-Mar	100	15	15.0%	86^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	60	22.0%	94^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	6	3.0%	31^st
1977 Oct-Dec	135	3	2.2%	25^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	9	6.0%	43^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	14	4.7%	31^st
1978 Jul-Sep	308	16	5.2%	37^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	3	3.9%	36^th
1979 Jan-Mar	62	11	17.7%	85^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	23	10.4%	70^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	14	7.1%	59^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	41	21.6%	89^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	14	9.5%	52^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	197	20	10.2%	60^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	29	15.1%	81^st
1980 Oct-Dec	67	24	35.8%	94^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	8	8.9%	63^rd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	16	15.1%	87^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	15	10.6%	68^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	11	22.9%	85^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	20	16.8%	90^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	38	19.7%	91^st
1982 Oct-Dec	99	22	22.2%	89^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	15	34.9%	98^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	145	79.7%	99^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	130	100.0%	100^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	39	27.3%	97^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	53	100.0%	100^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	80	35.9%	99^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	24	25.0%	95^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	14	38.9%	96^th
1985 Jan-Mar	35	18	51.4%	100^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	27	17.5%	95^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	28	27.7%	99^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	36	24.3%	98^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	86^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	52	40.6%	98^th

Primary Sources

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

unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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