Hugh Carey, former Representative for New York's 15th Congressional District

Carey was the representative for New York’s 15^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1963 to 1974.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 12^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1961 to 1962.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Carey is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1974 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 Carey sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Dec 20, 1974. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Carey was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

H.R. 11452 (93rd): An Act to correct an anomaly in the rate of duty applicable to crude feathers and downs, and for other purposes.

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Does 1 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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 at least about half 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

Carey sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Social Welfare (27%) Taxation (15%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Labor and Employment (10%) Private Legislation (10%) Transportation and Public Works (9%) Health (8%) Armed Forces and National Security (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Carey recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1961 to Dec 1974, Carey missed 1,083 of 3,513 roll call votes, which is 30.8%. 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.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	6	9.2%	93^rd
1961 Sep-Sep	29	5	17.2%	95^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	68^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	2	4.1%	79^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	2	4.0%	38^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	2	5.9%	82^nd
1964 Jul-Sep	49	3	6.1%	76^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	1	25.0%	80^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	3	10.7%	57^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	13	24.5%	87^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	26	26.5%	92^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	22	11	50.0%	92^nd
1966 Jan-Mar	30	4	13.3%	61^st
1966 Apr-Jun	51	4	7.8%	33^rd
1966 Jul-Sep	72	18	25.0%	75^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	16	40.0%	67^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	48^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	50^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	7	11.9%	95^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	7	7.1%	89^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	4	10.5%	96^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	4	5.1%	79^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	9	9.9%	80^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	3	12.0%	50^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	71^st
1969 Apr-Jun	28	25	89.3%	99^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	32	71.1%	100^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	39	44.3%	97^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	15	42.9%	94^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	27	36.5%	92^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	31	40.8%	94^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	20	24.7%	67^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	3	13.6%	66^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	25	27.8%	89^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	13	17.6%	76^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	15	11.2%	47^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	12	18.8%	80^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	30	26.3%	83^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	12	11.9%	59^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	21	42.0%	89^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	7	19.4%	78^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	43	22.5%	88^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	24	18.3%	88^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	51	28.0%	90^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	62	78.5%	100^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	165	97.1%	100^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	126	85.1%	99^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	130	92.2%	99^th

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

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