Rep. John Rousselot

Former Representative for California’s 26^th District

Rousselot was the representative for California’s 26^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1975 to 1982.

He was previously the representative for California’s 24^th congressional district as a Republican from 1969 to 1974; and the representative for California’s 25^th congressional district as a Republican from 1961 to 1962.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Rousselot 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 Rousselot sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Rousselot was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

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Does 4 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

Rousselot sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (44%) Social Welfare (12%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) Energy (9%) Labor and Employment (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (8%) Government Operations and Politics (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Rousselot 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 1982, Rousselot missed 981 of 7,025 roll call votes, which is 14.0%. This is much worse 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	5	7.7%	92^nd
1961 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	1	3.1%	90^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	3	6.1%	90^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	5	22.7%	97^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	24	31.6%	89^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	32	39.5%	91^st
1971 Jan-Mar	22	4	18.2%	80^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	21	23.3%	87^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	11	14.9%	76^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	37	27.6%	88^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	6	9.4%	49^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	26	22.8%	78^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	15	14.9%	66^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	11	22.0%	67^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	55^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	15	7.9%	49^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	1	0.8%	10^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	24	13.2%	80^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	5	6.3%	39^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	19	11.2%	55^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	14	9.5%	78^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	24	17.0%	76^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	8	11.8%	74^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	16	8.0%	62^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	17	11.0%	74^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	13	6.8%	60^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	3	2.8%	30^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	47	17.6%	82^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	281	24	8.5%	62^nd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	4	4.0%	38^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	26	9.5%	67^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	33	16.7%	88^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	15	11.1%	69^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	10	6.7%	44^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	40	13.3%	74^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	39	12.7%	69^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	1	1.3%	13^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	66^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	34	15.4%	85^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	48	24.2%	95^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	55	28.9%	94^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	21	14.2%	74^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	15	7.6%	47^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	41	21.4%	91^st
1980 Oct-Dec	67	5	7.5%	41^st
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	44^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	9	10.0%	64^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	17	16.0%	88^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	18	12.7%	75^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	8	16.7%	74^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	17	14.3%	83^rd
1982 Jul-Sep	193	46	23.8%	90^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	39	39.4%	91^st

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