Sen. Charles Goodell

Former Senator from New York, Republican

Goodell, a Republican, was a senator from New York from 1968 to 1970.

He was previously the representative for New York's 38^th congressional district (1963-1966); and the representative for New York's 43^rd congressional district (1959-1962).

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Voting Record

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From Jul 1967 to Dec 1970, Goodell missed 208 of 716 roll call votes, which is 29.1%. This is much worse than the median of 14.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1970. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jul-Sep	1	1	100.0%	99^th
1968 Jul-Sep	22	10	45.5%	88^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	5	18.5%	48^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	2	11.8%	66^th
1969 Apr-Jun	26	5	19.2%	72^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	18^th
1969 Oct-Dec	158	35	22.2%	75^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	16	16.0%	58^th
1970 Apr-Jun	92	26	28.3%	83^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	123	44	35.8%	74^th
1970 Oct-Dec	106	63	59.4%	88^th

Primary Sources

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

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

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