Rep. Lynn Woolsey
Former Representative for California’s 6th District
Woolsey was the representative for California’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. She served from 1993 to 2012.
![Photo of Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA6, 1993-2012]](/static/legislator-photos/400436-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Woolsey is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2013 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 Woolsey sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 2007 to Jan 1, 2013. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Woolsey was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 793 (112th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Inverness, California, as the “Specialist Jake Robert Velloza Post …
- H.R. 606 (109th): Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration and Preservation Act
Does 2 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Woolsey sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Education (23%) Labor and Employment (21%) International Affairs (13%) Government Operations and Politics (11%) Health (10%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) Environmental Protection (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Woolsey recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 6409 (112th): Private Sector Whistleblower Protection Streamlining Act of 2012
- H.Res. 573 (112th): Supporting the goals and ideals of National Women’s History Month.
- H.R. 3178 (112th): Employee Misclassification Prevention Act
- H.R. 3151 (112th): Domestic Violence Leave Act
- H.R. 2607 (112th): HELP Separated Children Act
- H.R. 2346 (112th): Balancing Act of 2011
- H.R. 1903 (112th): 21st Century STEM for Girls and Underrepresented Minorities Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1993 to Jan 2013, Woolsey missed 573 of 13,431 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. 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.
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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
