Gerry Studds, former Representative for Massachusetts's 10th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Studds 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 1996. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Studds is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Studds sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Environmental Protection (26%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) Transportation and Public Works (11%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (10%) International Affairs (8%) Science, Technology, Communications (8%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1973 to Sep 1996, Studds missed 368 of 13,012 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	1	0.5%	5^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	6	3.5%	21^st
1974 Jul-Sep	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	1	1.5%	20^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	9	3.4%	17^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	9	3.2%	29^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	1	0.4%	4^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	1	0.7%	7^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	0	0.0%	0^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	7	3.5%	37^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	2	1.1%	2^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	5	3.4%	19^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	3	1.5%	13^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	1	0.5%	7^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	1	0.7%	8^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	1	0.8%	11^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	5	2.6%	26^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	13	7.1%	57^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	6	4.6%	59^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	4	2.8%	26^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	40^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	23	10.3%	72^nd
1984 Jul-Sep	96	22	22.9%	96^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	28^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	64^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	5	3.2%	35^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	8	7.9%	68^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	6	9.8%	66^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	9	4.5%	59^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	5	8.3%	71^st
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	11	5.9%	63^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	41^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	9	5.4%	42^nd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	9	5.6%	60^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	5	3.3%	38^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	1	1.0%	18^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	33^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	1	0.8%	14^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	58^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	14^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	2	1.4%	29^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	52^nd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	49^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	31^st
1991 Oct-Nov	162	5	3.1%	59^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	1	1.5%	30^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	55^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	10	5.1%	68^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	7	5.5%	77^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	6	3.7%	72^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	1	0.7%	28^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	2	2.1%	38^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	36^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	3	2.1%	41^st
1994 Oct-Nov	51	9	17.6%	96^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	4	1.4%	53^rd
1995 Apr-Jun	189	5	2.6%	60^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	7	3.0%	64^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	26	14.1%	96^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	27	24.5%	96^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	16	8.8%	88^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	15	9.2%	89^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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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