Rep. Delwin Clawson

Former Representative for California’s 33^rd District

Clawson was the representative for California’s 33^rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1975 to 1978.

He was previously the representative for California’s 23^rd congressional district as a Republican from 1963 to 1974.

Bioguide

(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Clawson is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1978 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 Clawson sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Clawson was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

View All »

Does 2 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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

Clawson sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (57%) Families (17%) Taxation (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Clawson recently introduced the following legislation:

View All » | View Cosponsors »

Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jun 1963 to Oct 1978, Clawson missed 1,153 of 6,048 roll call votes, which is 19.1%. This is much worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1978. 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
1963 Apr-Jun	2	1	50.0%	99^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	1	3.6%	73^rd
1963 Oct-Dec	50	8	16.0%	97^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	1	25.0%	82^nd
1965 Jan-Mar	28	4	14.3%	77^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	15	28.3%	94^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	23	23.5%	91^st
1965 Oct-Oct	22	10	45.5%	94^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	6	20.0%	81^st
1966 Apr-Jun	51	19	37.3%	90^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	4	5.6%	27^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	27	67.5%	83^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	2	3.5%	68^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	3	5.1%	70^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	2	2.0%	40^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	1	2.6%	62^nd
1968 Apr-Jun	79	6	7.6%	88^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	15	16.5%	92^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	6	21.4%	82^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	4	8.9%	45^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	14	15.9%	65^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	29^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	13	17.6%	56^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	10	13.2%	52^nd
1970 Oct-Dec	81	34	42.0%	92^nd
1971 Jan-Mar	22	7	31.8%	94^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	11	12.2%	47^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	13	17.6%	79^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	22	16.4%	65^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	18	28.1%	93^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	37	32.5%	91^st
1972 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	54^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	8	16.0%	55^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	67^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	36	18.8%	85^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	21	16.0%	87^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	60	33.0%	95^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	5	6.3%	38^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	21	12.4%	60^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	13	8.8%	69^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	52	36.9%	96^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	57^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	28	14.1%	83^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	18	11.7%	76^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	31	16.2%	90^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	11	10.4%	69^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	58	21.7%	87^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	12	4.3%	36^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	4	4.0%	36^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	99	36.3%	97^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	57	28.8%	96^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	34	25.2%	94^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	27	18.0%	83^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	75	25.0%	86^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	119	38.6%	94^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	5	6.6%	50^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