Frank Brasco, former Representative for New York's 11th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Brasco sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1974. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Brasco is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Brasco sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Private Legislation (32%) Government Operations and Politics (27%) Labor and Employment (18%) Social Welfare (14%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%)

Recent Bills

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1967 to Dec 1974, Brasco missed 698 of 2,648 roll call votes, which is 26.4%. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	2	6.5%	80^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	2	3.5%	70^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	2	3.4%	59^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	3	3.1%	59^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	2	5.3%	82^nd
1968 Apr-Jun	79	7	8.9%	93^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	91	9	9.9%	80^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	2	8.0%	39^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	54^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	4	14.3%	62^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	10	22.2%	85^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	14	15.9%	65^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	11	31.4%	89^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	18	24.3%	73^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	12	15.8%	61^st
1970 Oct-Dec	81	21	25.9%	69^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	3	13.6%	66^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	20	22.2%	78^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	13	17.6%	76^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	12	9.0%	38^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	9	14.1%	64^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	19	16.7%	62^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	14	13.9%	65^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	8	16.0%	52^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	36	7	19.4%	78^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	24	12.6%	66^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	5	3.8%	39^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	27	14.8%	76^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	50	63.3%	99^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	79	46.5%	97^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	148	100.0%	100^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	140	99.3%	99^th

Primary Sources

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

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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