Roukema was the representative for New Jersey’s 5th congressional district and was a Republican. She served from 1983 to 2002.
She was previously the representative for New Jersey’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1981 to 1982.
![Photo of Rep. Marge Roukema [R-NJ5, 1983-2002]](/static/legislator-photos/400533-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Roukema is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2002 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 Roukema sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 7, 1997 to Nov 19, 2002. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Roukema was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 1306 (105th): Riegle-Neal Amendments Act of 1997
- H.R. 5001 (100th): A bill to establish the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Citizen Advisory Commission.
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
Roukema sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Finance and Financial Sector (20%) Government Operations and Politics (18%) Crime and Law Enforcement (11%) Health (11%) Commerce (10%) Housing and Community Development (10%) Law (10%) Social Welfare (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Roukema recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5153 (107th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located on …
- H.R. 4982 (107th): To waive the time limitation specified by law for the award of …
- H.R. 4447 (107th): To suspend temporarily the duty on certain prepared or preserved artichokes, not …
- H.R. 4448 (107th): To suspend temporarily the duty on certain prepared or preserved artichokes.
- H.R. 4210 (107th): Working From Poverty to Promise Act of 2002
- H.R. 4157 (107th): To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to correct …
- H.R. 4066 (107th): Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act of 2002
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1981 to Nov 2002, Roukema missed 806 of 11,242 roll call votes, which is 7.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. 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
- 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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
