Rep. Fernand St. Germain

Former Representative for Rhode Island’s 1^st District

St. Germain was the representative for Rhode Island’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1961 to 1988.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

St. Germain is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1988 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 St. Germain sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1983 to Oct 22, 1988. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

St. Germain was the primary sponsor of 24 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 24 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

St. Germain sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (43%) Government Operations and Politics (22%) Housing and Community Development (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Economics and Public Finance (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

St. Germain recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1961 to Oct 1988, St. Germain missed 1,356 of 11,148 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is much worse than the median of 5.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	5	7.7%	96^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	69^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	2	4.1%	81^st
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	1	3.2%	68^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	4	8.0%	83^rd
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	1	2.9%	63^rd
1964 Jul-Sep	49	5	10.2%	94^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	3	10.7%	52^nd
1965 Apr-Jun	53	14	26.4%	90^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	11	11.2%	73^rd
1965 Oct-Oct	22	2	9.1%	48^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	4	13.3%	69^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	6	11.8%	55^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	25	34.7%	90^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	3	7.5%	33^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	56^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	4	6.8%	84^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	5	6.3%	82^nd
1968 Jul-Sep	91	2	2.2%	24^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	4	16.0%	69^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.2%	51^st
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	8	17.8%	79^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	18	20.5%	77^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	12	34.3%	90^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	27	36.5%	89^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	20	26.3%	75^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	23	28.4%	75^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	7	31.8%	92^nd
1971 Apr-Jun	90	15	16.7%	71^st
1971 Jul-Sep	74	7	9.5%	54^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	9	6.7%	30^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	9	14.1%	62^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	33	28.9%	84^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	53^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	2	4.0%	24^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	6	16.7%	71^st
1973 Apr-Jun	191	7	3.7%	19^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	24	18.3%	88^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	21	11.5%	74^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	7	8.9%	46^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	20	11.8%	56^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	4	2.7%	27^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	7	5.0%	27^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	6	8.8%	68^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	10	5.0%	44^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	1	0.6%	7^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	26	13.6%	87^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	9	8.5%	59^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	28	10.5%	60^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	56	19.9%	89^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	2	28.6%	80^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	6	6.0%	53^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	273	44	16.1%	85^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	43	21.7%	93^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	135	9	6.7%	54^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	23	15.3%	83^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	37	12.3%	69^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	49	15.9%	81^st
1978 Oct-Oct	76	2	2.6%	23^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	9	14.3%	80^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	36	16.3%	88^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	23	11.6%	74^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	17	8.9%	47^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	18	12.2%	68^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	25	12.7%	72^nd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	64	33.3%	97^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	14	20.9%	79^th
1981 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	13	14.4%	80^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	12	11.3%	81^st
1981 Oct-Dec	142	14	9.9%	67^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	6	12.5%	67^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	5	4.2%	49^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	4	2.1%	16^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	13	13.1%	71^st
1983 Jan-Mar	43	3	7.0%	47^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	25	13.7%	81^st
1983 Jul-Sep	130	37	28.5%	100^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	10	7.0%	56^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	28	52.8%	98^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	22	9.9%	68^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	14	14.6%	85^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	7	19.4%	90^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	14	9.1%	78^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	22	21.8%	97^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	8	5.4%	60^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	13	21.3%	89^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	1	0.8%	14^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	6	3.0%	44^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	14	23.3%	93^rd
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	21	11.2%	85^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	18	18.9%	93^rd
1987 Oct-Dec	167	24	14.4%	87^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	29	18.0%	93^rd
1988 Jul-Sep	152	6	3.9%	42^nd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	11	12.4%	81^st

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