Les AuCoin, former Representative for Oregon's 1st Congressional District

AuCoin was the representative for Oregon’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1975 to 1992.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

AuCoin is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills AuCoin sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

AuCoin was the primary sponsor of 14 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 14 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

AuCoin sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Environmental Protection (18%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Taxation (12%) Education (12%) Housing and Community Development (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) Government Operations and Politics (10%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1975 to Oct 1992, AuCoin missed 1,306 of 9,472 roll call votes, which is 13.8%. 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.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	46^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	22	11.1%	75^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	13	8.4%	63^rd
1975 Oct-Dec	191	38	19.9%	93^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	14	13.2%	79^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	74	27.7%	93^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	281	79	28.1%	93^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	3	42.9%	87^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	3	3.0%	34^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	21	7.7%	54^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	8	4.0%	41^st
1977 Oct-Dec	135	17	12.6%	78^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	22	14.7%	82^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	79	26.3%	90^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	34	11.0%	67^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	6	7.9%	62^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	14	22.2%	88^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	20	9.0%	65^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	37	18.7%	90^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	28	14.7%	74^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	28	18.9%	85^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	25	12.7%	73^rd
1980 Jul-Sep	192	28	14.6%	79^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	10	14.9%	65^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	6	40.0%	96^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	21	23.3%	94^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	7	6.6%	63^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	142	52	36.6%	98^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	5	10.4%	67^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	44	37.0%	100^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	30	15.5%	87^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	7	7.1%	46^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	3	7.0%	46^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	29	15.9%	89^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	12	9.2%	85^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	11	7.7%	63^rd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	9	17.0%	83^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	19	8.5%	65^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	7	7.3%	67^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	77^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	16	10.4%	84^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	11	10.9%	86^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	17	11.5%	91^st
1986 Jan-Mar	61	10	16.4%	81^st
1986 Apr-Jun	128	13	10.2%	86^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	4	2.0%	34^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	34^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	36^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	11	5.9%	60^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	7	7.4%	74^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	17	10.2%	77^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	13	26.5%	96^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	9	5.6%	61^st
1988 Jul-Sep	152	18	11.8%	83^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	17	19.1%	93^rd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	4	3.8%	53^rd
1989 Jul-Sep	128	15	11.7%	96^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	14	11.6%	87^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	15	25.0%	98^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	11	7.3%	80^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	35	19.1%	98^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	3	2.1%	37^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	6	9.7%	86^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	21	15.1%	95^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	4	4.9%	56^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	12	7.4%	82^nd
1992 Jan-Mar	66	19	28.8%	97^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	53	28.6%	97^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	30	15.3%	87^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	4	9.8%	73^rd

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

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