John Kyl, former Representative for Iowa's 4th Congressional District

Kyl was the representative for Iowa’s 4^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1967 to 1972.

He was previously the representative for Iowa’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1959 to 1964.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1960 to Oct 1972, Kyl missed 107 of 2,134 roll call votes, which is 5.0%. This is better than the median of 10.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1960 Feb-Apr	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	3	4.6%	75^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	1	4.5%	65^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	1	3.6%	67^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	1	2.0%	24^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	1	2.9%	56^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	2	4.1%	64^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	2	3.5%	69^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	5	5.1%	81^st
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	1	1.3%	23^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	91	1	1.1%	18^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	3	12.0%	50^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	71^st
1969 Apr-Jun	28	5	17.9%	72^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	3	6.7%	35^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	15	17.0%	66^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	27^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	15	20.3%	63^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	2	2.6%	13^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	50^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	8	8.9%	29^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	1	1.4%	8^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	4	3.0%	11^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	4	6.3%	33^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	12	10.5%	39^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	36^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	4	8.0%	30^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

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Rep. John Kyl

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Missed Votes

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