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Rep. John Schmitz

Former Representative from California’s 35^th District, Republican

Schmitz, a Republican, was the representative for California's 35^th congressional district from 1969 to 1972.

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Voting Record

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From Jul 1970 to Oct 1972, Schmitz missed 148 of 806 roll call votes, which is 18.4%. This is much worse 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
1970 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	1	1.1%	3^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	74	3	4.1%	25^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	4	3.0%	11^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	3	4.7%	24^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	44	38.6%	89^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	46	45.5%	94^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	47	94.0%	97^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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