Rep. Charles Carney

Former Representative for Ohio’s 19^th District

Carney was the representative for Ohio’s 19^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1969 to 1978.

Bioguide

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Carney is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Carney sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Carney was the primary sponsor of 16 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

View All »

Does 16 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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 at least about half 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

Carney sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (21%) Social Welfare (21%) Armed Forces and National Security (16%) Taxation (14%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (9%) Labor and Employment (8%) Finance and Financial Sector (5%) Crime and Law Enforcement (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Carney recently introduced the following legislation:

View All » | View Cosponsors »

Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Nov 1970 to Oct 1978, Carney missed 573 of 4,611 roll call votes, which is 12.4%. This is worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1970 Oct-Dec	71	8	11.3%	40^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	16	17.8%	72^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	74	2	2.7%	21^st
1971 Oct-Dec	134	23	17.2%	68^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	2	3.1%	21^st
1972 Apr-Jun	114	32	28.1%	87^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	36	35.6%	95^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	8	22.2%	83^rd
1973 Apr-Jun	191	22	11.5%	66^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	4	3.1%	34^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	25	13.7%	78^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	17	21.5%	90^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	13	7.6%	41^st
1974 Jul-Sep	148	15	10.1%	75^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	16	11.3%	58^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	57^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	1	0.5%	6^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	6	3.9%	35^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	11	5.8%	53^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	21^st
1976 Apr-Jun	267	43	16.1%	77^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	32	11.4%	71^st
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	5	5.0%	44^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	21	7.7%	49^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	21	10.6%	69^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	11	8.1%	56^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	20	13.3%	73^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	77	25.7%	87^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	45	14.6%	71^st
1978 Oct-Oct	76	34	44.7%	93^rd

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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills