Rep. Edolphus “Ed” Towns

Former Representative from New York's 10^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1993-2013	Representative, New York's 10^th District
1983-1992	Representative, New York's 11^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Towns was a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Towns’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Towns’s bills had a total of 292 cosponsors in the 112^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Towns to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112^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 Towns’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1983 to Jan 2013, Towns missed 1,987 of 17,962 roll call votes, which is 11.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	8	18.6%	91^st
1983 Apr-Jun	176	13	7.4%	65^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	76^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	8	5.6%	57^th
1984 Jan-Mar	51	13	25.5%	91^st
1984 Apr-Jun	223	36	16.1%	87^th
1984 Jul-Sep	90	38	42.2%	98^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	30^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	10	27.8%	94^th
1985 Apr-Jun	152	26	17.1%	94^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	8	7.9%	66^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	23	15.5%	94^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	8	13.1%	81^st
1986 Apr-Jun	128	10	7.8%	83^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	199	23	11.6%	87^th
1986 Oct-Oct	59	6	10.2%	81^st
1987 Jan-Mar	39	4	10.3%	78^th
1987 Apr-Jun	185	32	17.3%	96^th
1987 Jul-Sep	90	16	17.8%	96^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	33	19.8%	98^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	8	16.3%	88^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	23	14.3%	95^th
1988 Jul-Sep	144	36	25.0%	95^th
1988 Oct-Oct	87	10	11.5%	86^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	83^rd
1989 Apr-Jun	103	12	11.7%	97^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	9	7.0%	86^th
1989 Oct-Nov	120	23	19.2%	95^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	59^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	7	4.7%	62^nd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	16	8.7%	89^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	25	17.5%	97^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	55^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	16	11.5%	95^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	12	14.8%	89^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	32	19.8%	97^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	3	4.5%	55^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	15	8.1%	82^nd
1992 Jul-Sep	196	82	41.8%	96^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	11	26.8%	96^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	6	4.7%	71^st
1993 Apr-Jun	190	25	13.2%	90^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	31	18.9%	98^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	12	9.0%	92^nd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	13	13.7%	95^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	51	23.3%	99^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	19	13.4%	91^st
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	47^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	16	5.7%	88^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	16	8.5%	88^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	34	14.7%	98^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	20	10.8%	93^rd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	3	2.7%	53^rd
1996 Apr-Jun	182	23	12.6%	97^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	19	11.7%	98^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	9	12.7%	96^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	23	13.2%	97^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	22	9.5%	96^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	8	4.9%	76^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	4	4.5%	68^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	23	12.4%	95^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	68	34.2%	99^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	3	4.1%	67^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	6	7.8%	87^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	15	8.2%	90^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	34	16.7%	98^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	16	11.0%	92^nd
2000 Jan-Mar	95	2	2.1%	36^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	24	8.7%	88^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	10	7.7%	85^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	12	11.9%	74^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	8	10.7%	93^rd
2001 Apr-Jun	135	7	5.2%	79^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	22	14.8%	97^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	12	7.8%	90^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	2	2.5%	54^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	18	8.9%	91^st
2002 Jul-Sep	141	26	18.4%	96^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	9	14.8%	92^nd
2003 Jan-Mar	94	15	16.0%	96^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	18	7.5%	88^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	24	12.4%	93^rd
2003 Oct-Dec	151	10	6.6%	73^rd
2004 Jan-Mar	104	2	1.9%	30^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	10	4.5%	68^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	21	13.0%	90^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	43	74.1%	100^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	13	14.4%	96^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	18	6.6%	83^rd
2005 Jul-Sep	146	23	15.8%	97^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	26	16.0%	95^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	3	1.1%	27^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	17	10.7%	95^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	8	3.8%	75^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	13	3.3%	72^nd
2007 Jul-Sep	317	19	6.0%	86^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	18	6.8%	79^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	36	24.2%	97^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	5	1.6%	30^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	21	10.2%	89^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	3	1.7%	43^rd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	13	4.3%	74^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	14	5.2%	86^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	17	6.9%	82^nd
2010 Jan-Mar	195	16	8.2%	84^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	26	11.9%	93^rd
2010 Jul-Sep	151	12	7.9%	88^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	5	5.1%	61^st
2011 Jan-Mar	212	5	2.4%	72^nd
2011 Apr-Jun	281	13	4.6%	83^rd
2011 Jul-Sep	247	31	12.6%	96^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	7	3.4%	63^rd
2012 Jan-Mar	151	18	11.9%	91^st
2012 Apr-Jun	299	46	15.4%	94^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	31	20.4%	96^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	24	47.1%	97^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

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

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills