Rep. Charles “Buddy” Roemer

Former Representative for Louisiana’s 4^th District

Roemer was the representative for Louisiana’s 4^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1981 to 1988.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Roemer is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1988 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 Roemer sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1983 to Oct 22, 1988. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Roemer sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (38%) Taxation (25%) International Affairs (19%) Finance and Financial Sector (19%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Roemer recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1981 to Mar 1988, Roemer missed 418 of 3,123 roll call votes, which is 13.4%. This is much worse than the median of 5.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1988. 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
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	47^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	7	7.8%	58^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	1	0.9%	15^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	2	1.4%	12^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	1	0.8%	10^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	17^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	11^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	3	1.3%	10^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	2	1.3%	15^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	2	2.0%	29^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	49^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	1	0.8%	14^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	2	1.0%	18^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	15	25.0%	94^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	14	35.9%	98^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	98	52.4%	98^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	81	85.3%	99^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	157	94.0%	99^th
1988 Feb-Mar	27	25	92.6%	100^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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills