Rep. Gregory Carman
Former Representative for New York’s 3rd District
Carman was the representative for New York’s 3rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1981 to 1982.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Carman is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 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 Carman sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Carman sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (30%) Social Welfare (30%) Finance and Financial Sector (20%) Taxation (20%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Carman recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 7329 (97th): A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to …
- H.R. 7257 (97th): A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to establish a …
- H.R. 6626 (97th): National Export Policy Commission Act of 1982
- H.R. 6412 (97th): A bill to restrict the period of time during which checks drawn …
- H.R. 6143 (97th): A bill to prohibit the disposal of dredged material in Long Island …
- H.R. 6090 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow …
- H.R. 5624 (97th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1981 to Dec 1982, Carman missed 40 of 812 roll call votes, which is 4.9%. This is better than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. 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.
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
