Rep. Joseph Brennan

Former Representative for Maine’s 1^st District

Brennan was the representative for Maine’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1987 to 1990.

Bioguide

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Brennan 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 Brennan sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1985 to Oct 27, 1990. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Brennan sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Environmental Protection (36%) Government Operations and Politics (21%) Crime and Law Enforcement (14%) Health (14%) Labor and Employment (14%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Brennan recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1987 to Oct 1990, Brennan missed 88 of 1,835 roll call votes, which is 4.8%. This is on par with 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
1987 Jan-Mar	31	1	3.2%	59^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	3	1.6%	23^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	1	1.1%	20^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	8	4.8%	35^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	2	2.2%	47^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	1	1.0%	16^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	1	0.8%	12^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	71	49.7%	99^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