Clifford Case, former Senator for New Jersey

Case was a senator from New Jersey and was a Republican. He served from 1955 to 1978.

He was previously the representative for New Jersey’s 6^th congressional district as a Republican from 1945 to 1954.

Photo of Sen. Clifford Case [R-NJ, 1955-1978]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Case is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1978 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 Case sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Case was the primary sponsor of 3 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 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

Case sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (21%) Private Legislation (17%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (10%) Environmental Protection (10%) Taxation (10%) Water Resources Development (10%) Families (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1955 to Oct 1978, Case missed 540 of 8,227 roll call votes, which is 6.6%. This is better than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1955 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	38^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	2	4.3%	62^nd
1956 Apr-Jun	50	2	4.0%	33^rd
1956 Jul-Jul	33	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	3	6.7%	38^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	2	5.3%	41^st
1958 Apr-Jun	86	3	3.5%	35^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	5	8.8%	82^nd
1959 May-Aug	128	7	5.5%	41^st
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	79	11	13.9%	68^th
1960 May-Aug	123	5	4.1%	26^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	137	3	2.2%	19^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	1	2.8%	19^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	4	6.5%	41^st
1962 Jul-Sep	122	2	1.6%	11^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	73	3	4.1%	29^th
1963 Jul-Sep	61	7	11.5%	44^th
1963 Oct-Dec	87	7	8.0%	41^st
1964 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	138	1	0.7%	24^th
1964 Jul-Sep	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	6^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	8	7.5%	19^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	28^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	4	26.7%	53^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	17	30.4%	82^nd
1966 Jul-Sep	119	16	13.4%	53^rd
1966 Oct-Oct	35	24	68.6%	79^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	10^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	21	30.0%	88^th
1967 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	10^th
1967 Oct-Dec	111	1	0.9%	3^rd
1968 Jan-Mar	69	4	5.8%	23^rd
1968 Apr-Jun	96	18	18.8%	53^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	89	1	1.1%	3^rd
1968 Oct-Oct	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	18^th
1969 Oct-Dec	158	17	10.8%	33^rd
1970 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	92	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jul-Sep	123	2	1.6%	4^th
1970 Oct-Dec	106	6	5.7%	12^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	4	16.0%	46^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	4	4.5%	7^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	7	6.4%	22^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	202	9	4.5%	14^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	7	5.9%	19^th
1972 Apr-Jun	130	11	8.5%	31^st
1972 Jul-Sep	206	7	3.4%	17^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	7	9.3%	38^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	12	6.3%	23^rd
1973 Jul-Sep	167	6	3.6%	25^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	4	2.4%	11^th
1974 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	179	11	6.1%	36^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	19	13.8%	74^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	5	3.8%	15^th
1975 Jan-Mar	118	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	141	13	9.2%	47^th
1975 Jul-Sep	170	9	5.3%	28^th
1975 Oct-Dec	182	7	3.8%	21^st
1976 Jan-Mar	109	3	2.8%	17^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	31	11.8%	51^st
1976 Jul-Sep	315	19	6.0%	20^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	7	53.8%	67^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	6	6.5%	37^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	15	8.4%	44^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	32	13.7%	80^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	6	4.5%	23^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	78	5	6.4%	31^st
1978 Apr-Jun	119	10	8.4%	56^th
1978 Jul-Sep	237	28	11.8%	53^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	86	15	17.4%	71^st

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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