Daniel Crane, former Representative for Illinois's 19th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Crane sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1984. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Crane is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Crane sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (28%) Government Operations and Politics (22%) Social Welfare (17%) Transportation and Public Works (11%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Crime and Law Enforcement (11%)

Recent Bills

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1979 to Oct 1984, Crane missed 282 of 2,994 roll call votes, which is 9.4%. This is on par with the median of 7.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1984. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	8	12.7%	79^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	33	14.9%	85^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	25	12.6%	78^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	14	7.4%	38^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	22	14.9%	75^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	13	6.6%	43^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	15	7.8%	53^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	17	25.4%	85^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	6	6.7%	50^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	47^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	13	9.2%	62^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	77^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	19	9.8%	70^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	14	14.1%	72^nd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	8	18.6%	84^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	11	6.0%	45^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	15	11.5%	88^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	8	5.6%	48^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	52^nd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	13	5.8%	45^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	6	6.3%	56^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	4	11.1%	65^th

Primary Sources

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

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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Analysis

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources

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Rep. Daniel Crane

Analysis

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources

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