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

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 is a member of the House of Representatives. 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

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 2,991 roll call votes, which is 8.3%. 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	63	7	11.1%	77^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	25	11.4%	76^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	22	11.1%	76^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	13	6.8%	36^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	20	13.5%	74^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	10	5.1%	34^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	13	6.8%	49^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	14	20.9%	80^th
1981 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	47^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	6	6.7%	52^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	4	3.8%	43^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	142	10	7.0%	56^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	77^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	15	7.8%	61^st
1982 Oct-Dec	99	14	14.1%	73^rd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	7	16.3%	80^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	11	6.0%	46^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	14	10.8%	88^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	8	5.6%	50^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	54^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	12	5.4%	43^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	96	5	5.2%	49^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