Rep. Gerald Solomon

Former Representative from New York's 22^nd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1993-1998	Representative, New York's 22^nd District
1983-1992	Representative, New York's 24^th District
1979-1982	Representative, New York's 29^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Solomon was a far-right Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Solomon’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Solomon’s bills had a total of 843 cosponsors in the 105^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Solomon to other members of the House of Representatives in the 105^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 Solomon’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1979 to Dec 1998, Solomon missed 413 of 10,282 roll call votes, which is 4.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1998. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	41^st
1979 Apr-Jun	220	10	4.5%	36^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	3	1.5%	22^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	190	8	4.2%	20^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	13	8.8%	54^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	6	3.1%	27^th
1980 Jul-Sep	189	11	5.8%	48^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	8	11.9%	55^th
1981 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	72^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jul-Sep	105	2	1.9%	38^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	6	4.2%	43^rd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	36^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	2	1.7%	21^st
1982 Jul-Sep	191	29	15.2%	88^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	2	2.0%	14^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	28^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	10	5.5%	47^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	68^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	11	7.7%	69^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	8	15.1%	84^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	4	1.8%	17^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	18^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	4	11.1%	70^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	148	15	10.1%	85^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	67^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	10	6.8%	76^th
1986 Jan-Mar	58	11	19.0%	88^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	10	7.8%	85^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	1	0.5%	12^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	5	8.3%	72^nd
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	43^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	186	9	4.8%	61^st
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	46^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	4	2.4%	19^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	3	1.9%	30^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	5	3.3%	46^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	7	7.9%	75^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	104	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	18^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	5	3.3%	59^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	6	3.3%	54^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	1	0.7%	20^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	51^st
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	48^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	39^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	1	1.5%	31^st
1992 Apr-Jun	185	1	0.5%	12^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	12	6.1%	73^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	7	5.5%	79^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	9	4.7%	68^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	24^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	1	0.7%	29^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	4	4.2%	64^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	15	6.8%	84^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	6	4.2%	67^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	48^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	4	1.4%	54^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	9	4.8%	78^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	13	5.6%	83^rd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	3	1.6%	44^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	4	3.6%	66^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	75^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	6	3.7%	69^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	36^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	19	8.2%	91^st
1997 Oct-Nov	163	3	1.8%	43^rd
1998 Jan-Mar	89	9	10.1%	86^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	3	1.6%	42^nd
1998 Jul-Sep	199	4	2.0%	49^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	3	4.1%	65^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gerald Solomon [R-NY22, 1993-1998] leaves office as Representative for New York's 22nd congressional district

Dec 19, 1998

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gerald Solomon [R-NY22, 1993-1998] takes office as Representative for New York's 22nd congressional district

Jan 05, 1993

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gerald Solomon [R-NY22, 1993-1998] leaves office as Representative for New York's 24th congressional district

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gerald Solomon [R-NY22, 1993-1998] takes office as Representative for New York's 24th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Gerald Solomon [R-NY22, 1993-1998] leaves office as Representative for New York's 29th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982