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Rep. Joseph Early

Former Representative from Massachusetts’s 3^rd District, Democrat

Bioguide

Early, a Democrat, was the representative for Massachusetts's 3^rd congressional district from 1975 to 1992.

Photo of Rep. Joseph Early [D-MA3, 1975-1992]

Enacted Legislation

Early was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

H.R. 4118 (99th): A bill to designate the building commonly known as the “Old Post Office” in Worcester, Massachusetts, as the “Harold D. Donohue Federal Building”.
H.J.Res. 568 (97th): A joint resolution to provide for the designation of October 5, 1982 as “Dr. Robert H. Goddard Day”.

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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 about one third or more 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

Early sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (43%) Immigration (29%) Private Legislation (29%)

Recent Bills

Some of Early’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1975 to Oct 1992, Early missed 980 of 9,472 roll call votes, which is 10.3%. This is much worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	4	5.9%	57^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	6	3.0%	30^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	3	1.9%	21^st
1975 Oct-Dec	191	16	8.4%	70^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	2	1.9%	22^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	267	9	3.4%	17^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	42	14.9%	83^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	71^st
1977 Jan-Mar	100	14	14.0%	84^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	18	6.6%	49^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	41	20.7%	92^nd
1977 Oct-Dec	135	5	3.7%	35^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	24	16.0%	84^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	14	4.7%	34^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	31	10.1%	63^rd
1978 Oct-Oct	76	4	5.3%	47^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	3	4.8%	58^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	18	8.1%	59^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	19	9.6%	69^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	29	15.3%	76^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	14	9.5%	56^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	25	12.7%	73^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	22	11.5%	71^st
1980 Oct-Dec	67	13	19.4%	76^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	5	5.6%	46^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	16	15.1%	87^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	28	19.7%	90^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	11	22.9%	86^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	41^st
1982 Jul-Sep	193	29	15.0%	87^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	10	10.1%	57^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	4	9.3%	62^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	13	7.1%	55^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	74^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	47	32.9%	99^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	13	24.5%	92^nd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	30	13.5%	84^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	28	29.2%	97^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	60^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	66^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	13	8.4%	78^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	13	12.9%	90^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	20	13.5%	94^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	16	26.2%	95^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	18	14.1%	93^rd
1986 Jul-Sep	202	22	10.9%	88^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	3	5.0%	56^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	60^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	20	10.7%	85^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	20	21.1%	95^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	20	12.0%	84^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	4	8.2%	67^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	18	11.2%	86^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	17	11.2%	82^nd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	9	8.6%	84^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	8	6.3%	80^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	22	18.2%	97^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	8	13.3%	90^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	8	5.3%	70^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	20	10.9%	92^nd
1990 Oct-Oct	143	14	9.8%	85^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	5	8.1%	82^nd
1991 Apr-Jun	139	3	2.2%	34^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	44^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	5	3.1%	56^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	6	3.2%	44^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	31	15.8%	88^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

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

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills