Rep. Ella Grasso

Former Representative for Connecticut’s 6^th District

Grasso was the representative for Connecticut’s 6^th congressional district and was a Democrat. She served from 1971 to 1974.

Bioguide

Photo of Rep. Ella Grasso [D-CT6, 1971-1974]

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Grasso is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1974 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 Grasso sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Dec 20, 1974. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

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

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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

Grasso sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Social Welfare (21%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Taxation (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Agriculture and Food (11%) Labor and Employment (10%) Energy (10%) Commerce (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Grasso recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1971 to Dec 1974, Grasso missed 303 of 1,727 roll call votes, which is 17.5%. This is much worse than the median of 9.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1974. 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
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	50^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	27	30.0%	92^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	74	14	18.9%	78^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	13	9.7%	41^st
1972 Jan-Mar	64	13	20.3%	84^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	7	6.1%	24^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	48^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	7	14.0%	47^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	36^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	10	5.2%	29^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	21	11.5%	64^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	9	11.4%	59^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	22	12.9%	57^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	36	24.3%	89^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	111	78.7%	98^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills