Grotberg was the representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1985 to 1986.
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Grotberg sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (43%) Finance and Financial Sector (29%) Taxation (29%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Grotberg recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Con.Res. 182 (99th): A concurrent resolution calling upon the Members of the Congress to actively …
- H.R. 3073 (99th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide …
- H.R. 2906 (99th): Voter Interest and Participation Act of 1985
- H.R. 2905 (99th): Airport and Air Carrier Security Improvement Act of 1985
- H.R. 2877 (99th): A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to …
- H.R. 2824 (99th): A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 with respect …
- H.Con.Res. 157 (99th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that performing groups …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1985 to Oct 1986, Grotberg missed 473 of 890 roll call votes, which is 53.1%. This is much worse than the median of 6.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. 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
