Rep. Edwin Zschau

Former Representative from California’s 12^th District, Republican

Zschau, a Republican, was the representative for California's 12^th congressional district from 1983 to 1986.

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Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Zschau sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (36%) Taxation (29%) Government Operations and Politics (21%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%)

Recent Bills

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1983 to Oct 1986, Zschau missed 145 of 1,796 roll call votes, which is 8.1%. This is on par with the median of 6.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	32^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	3	1.6%	15^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	11^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	1	0.7%	5^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	1	0.4%	4^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	2	2.1%	30^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	1	0.6%	8^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	4	4.0%	45^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	16	10.8%	85^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	17	27.9%	94^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	32	25.0%	94^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	54	26.7%	96^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	11	18.3%	87^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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