Marvin Esch, former Representative for Michigan's 2nd Congressional District

Esch was the representative for Michigan’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1967 to 1976.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Esch is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1976 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 Esch sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 1, 1976. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Esch sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Labor and Employment (24%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Education (13%) Health (13%) Taxation (13%) International Affairs (7%) Families (7%) Transportation and Public Works (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Esch recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1967 to Oct 1976, Esch missed 1,034 of 3,921 roll call votes, which is 26.4%. This is much worse than the median of 8.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1976. 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
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	2	3.5%	69^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	2	3.4%	62^nd
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	52^nd
1968 Jul-Sep	91	5	5.5%	60^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	74^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	8	28.6%	90^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	9	20.0%	83^rd
1969 Oct-Dec	88	11	12.5%	52^nd
1970 Jan-Mar	35	9	25.7%	81^st
1970 Apr-Jun	74	17	23.0%	70^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	24	31.6%	88^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	17	21.0%	60^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	53^rd
1971 Apr-Jun	90	18	20.0%	74^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	36	48.6%	98^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	12	9.0%	40^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	6	9.4%	48^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	42	36.8%	91^st
1972 Jul-Sep	101	18	17.8%	76^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	18	36.0%	86^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	7	19.4%	78^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	23	12.0%	68^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	7	5.3%	50^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	24	13.2%	75^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	4	5.1%	31^st
1974 Apr-Jun	170	50	29.4%	94^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	10	6.8%	58^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	10	7.1%	38^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	16	23.5%	92^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	40	20.1%	92^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	51	33.1%	97^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	66	34.6%	97^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	46	43.4%	97^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	153	57.3%	96^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	260	92.5%	99^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	7	100.0%	91^st

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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