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

Dates	Title / State / District
1983-1984	Representative, Illinois's 19^th District
1979-1982	Representative, Illinois's 22^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Crane was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Crane’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Crane’s bills had a total of 260 cosponsors in the 98^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Crane to other members of the House of Representatives in the 98^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1979 to Oct 1984, Crane missed 247 of 2,955 roll call votes, which is 8.4%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% 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 Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	62	7	11.3%	79^th
1979 Apr-Jun	212	25	11.8%	77^th
1979 Jul-Sep	195	22	11.3%	78^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	13	6.9%	39^th
1980 Jan-Mar	146	20	13.7%	75^th
1980 Apr-Jun	193	10	5.2%	38^th
1980 Jul-Sep	190	13	6.8%	52^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	64	14	21.9%	82^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	46^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	6	6.7%	52^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	105	4	3.8%	48^th
1981 Oct-Dec	139	10	7.2%	59^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	77^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Jul-Sep	189	15	7.9%	64^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	14	14.1%	73^rd
1983 Jan-Mar	42	7	16.7%	84^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	11	6.0%	46^th
1983 Jul-Sep	129	14	10.9%	88^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	8	5.6%	50^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	54^th
1984 Apr-Jun	222	12	5.4%	45^th
1984 Jul-Sep	94	5	5.3%	57^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	4	11.1%	66^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills