Manuel Luján, former Representative for New Mexico's 1st Congressional District

Luján was the representative for New Mexico’s 1^st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1969 to 1988.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Luján is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1988 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 Luján sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1983 to Oct 22, 1988. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Luján was the primary sponsor of 20 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 20 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

Luján sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Arts, Culture, Religion (18%) Energy (15%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Taxation (12%) International Affairs (12%) Agriculture and Food (12%) Economics and Public Finance (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Luján recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1969 to Oct 1988, Luján missed 1,310 of 9,806 roll call votes, which is 13.4%. This is much worse than the median of 5.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	73^rd
1969 Apr-Jun	28	8	28.6%	92^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	10	22.2%	84^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	18	20.5%	77^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	3	8.6%	37^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	19	25.7%	72^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	76	27	35.5%	87^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	49	60.5%	97^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	9	10.0%	32^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	74	17	23.0%	86^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	48	35.8%	92^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	5	7.8%	40^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	50	43.9%	93^rd
1972 Jul-Sep	101	33	32.7%	90^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	17	34.0%	81^st
1973 Jan-Mar	36	6	16.7%	71^st
1973 Apr-Jun	191	22	11.5%	67^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	29	22.1%	90^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	17	9.3%	64^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	7	8.9%	46^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	39	22.9%	89^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	21	14.2%	84^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	28	19.9%	83^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	63^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	35	17.6%	90^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	18	11.7%	75^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	20	10.5%	79^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	24	22.6%	93^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	267	59	22.1%	86^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	38	13.5%	76^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	11	11.0%	75^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	35	12.8%	78^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	6	3.0%	30^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	28	20.7%	92^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	150	15	10.0%	65^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	62	20.7%	85^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	47	15.3%	79^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	62	81.6%	99^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	21	9.5%	66^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	2	1.0%	10^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	25	13.2%	69^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	16	10.8%	63^rd
1980 Apr-Jun	197	34	17.3%	85^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	23	12.0%	69^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	6	6.7%	50^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	11	10.4%	78^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	4	2.8%	21^st
1982 Feb-Mar	48	4	8.3%	55^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	40^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	9	4.7%	40^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	1	1.0%	8^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	17^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	7	3.8%	30^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	5	3.8%	47^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	5	3.5%	31^st
1984 Jan-Mar	53	5	9.4%	64^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	5	2.2%	20^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	1	1.0%	16^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	59^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	2	1.3%	15^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	1	1.0%	18^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	8	5.4%	60^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	38^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	69	53.9%	100^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	5	2.5%	38^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	2	3.3%	45^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	57^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	20	10.7%	83^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	5^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	53^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	25	15.5%	90^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	27	17.8%	90^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	1	1.1%	32^nd

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
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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