Gerald Solomon, former Representative for New York's 22nd Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Solomon 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 1998. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Solomon is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Enacted Legislation

Solomon was the primary sponsor of 10 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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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 about one third or more 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

Solomon sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (24%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Law (14%) International Affairs (10%) Crime and Law Enforcement (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%) Labor and Employment (9%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Solomon’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1979 to Dec 1998, Solomon missed 434 of 10,308 roll call votes, which is 4.2%. 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 Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	38^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	10	4.5%	35^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	4	2.0%	22^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	190	8	4.2%	20^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	13	8.8%	50^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	7	3.6%	27^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	14	7.3%	51^st
1980 Oct-Dec	67	8	11.9%	55^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	74^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	1	1.1%	9^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	3	2.8%	37^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%	20^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	31	16.1%	88^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	2	2.0%	14^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	27^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	10	5.5%	47^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	66^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	11	7.7%	67^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	8	15.1%	79^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	4	1.8%	17^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	1	1.0%	18^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	4	11.1%	70^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	21	13.6%	94^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	67^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	10	6.8%	72^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	14	23.0%	92^nd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	10	7.8%	82^nd
1986 Jul-Sep	202	1	0.5%	11^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	5	8.3%	71^st
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	41^st
1987 Apr-Jun	187	10	5.3%	59^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	44^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%	29^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	5	3.3%	42^nd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	7	7.9%	74^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	1	1.0%	20^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:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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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Analysis

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Missed Votes

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Rep. Gerald Solomon

Analysis

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources