Rep. John Rowland

Former Representative for Connecticut’s 5^th District

Rowland was the representative for Connecticut’s 5^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1985 to 1990.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Rowland is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1990 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 Rowland sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1985 to Oct 27, 1990. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

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

H.R. 1191 (100th): A bill for the relief of Maria Helena Vas and Jose Maria Vas.

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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

Rowland sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (20%) Finance and Financial Sector (16%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (16%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Labor and Employment (12%) Economics and Public Finance (8%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Immigration (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Rowland recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1985 to Oct 1990, Rowland missed 219 of 2,733 roll call votes, which is 8.0%. This is worse than the median of 4.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1990. 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
1985 Jan-Mar	36	2	5.6%	36^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	3	1.9%	21^st
1985 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	20^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	6	4.1%	51^st
1986 Jan-Mar	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	34^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	2	1.1%	14^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	3	3.2%	49^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	8	4.8%	35^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	27^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	1	0.6%	13^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	14	9.2%	77^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	1	1.1%	34^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	2	1.9%	29^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	5	3.9%	58^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	13	10.7%	83^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	4	2.7%	47^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	59	32.2%	98^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	93	65.0%	100^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
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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