Matthew Martínez, former Representative for California's 31st Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Martínez sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 2000. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Martínez is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Martínez sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Economics and Public Finance (18%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Social Welfare (13%) Labor and Employment (12%) Law (12%) Health (11%) Education (10%) Families (10%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

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From Jul 1982 to Dec 2000, Martínez missed 1,097 of 9,718 roll call votes, which is 11.3%. This is much worse than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2000. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1982 Jul-Sep	185	4	2.2%	24^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	36	36.4%	98^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	7	16.3%	82^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	149	81.9%	99^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	8	6.2%	68^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	27	18.9%	95^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	1	1.9%	23^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	223	6	2.7%	23^rd
1984 Jul-Sep	96	5	5.2%	53^rd
1984 Oct-Oct	36	2	5.6%	46^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	65^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	8	5.2%	61^st
1985 Jul-Sep	101	10	9.9%	76^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	14	9.5%	89^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	5	8.2%	60^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	7	5.5%	71^st
1986 Jul-Sep	202	33	16.3%	94^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	4	6.7%	68^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	15	8.0%	78^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	5	5.3%	69^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	20	12.0%	80^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	6	12.2%	83^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	18	11.2%	88^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	9	5.9%	64^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	83^rd
1989 Apr-Jun	105	9	8.6%	87^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	8	6.3%	83^rd
1989 Oct-Nov	121	5	4.1%	55^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	4	6.7%	82^nd
1990 Apr-Jun	150	18	12.0%	89^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	27	14.8%	95^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	20	14.0%	95^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	8	12.9%	95^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	30	21.6%	98^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	14	17.3%	93^rd
1991 Oct-Nov	162	28	17.3%	97^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	8	12.1%	88^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	11	5.9%	76^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	17	8.7%	87^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	3	7.3%	66^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	3	2.4%	52^nd
1993 Apr-Jun	190	21	11.1%	90^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	10	6.1%	86^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	10	7.5%	92^nd
1994 Jan-Mar	95	8	8.4%	86^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	7	3.2%	68^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	3	2.1%	43^rd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	3	5.9%	80^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	19	6.8%	94^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	20	10.6%	95^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	23	9.9%	93^rd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	15	8.1%	91^st
1996 Jan-Mar	110	7	6.4%	84^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	8	4.4%	76^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	10	6.1%	86^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	1	1.4%	37^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	7	4.0%	75^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	18	7.8%	91^st
1997 Oct-Nov	163	9	5.5%	80^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	12	13.5%	93^rd
1998 Apr-Jun	185	19	10.3%	93^rd
1998 Jul-Sep	199	25	12.6%	95^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	11	14.9%	95^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	6	7.8%	89^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	16	8.7%	91^st
1999 Jul-Sep	204	8	3.9%	75^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	17	11.6%	93^rd
2000 Jan-Mar	95	27	28.4%	97^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	89	32.1%	99^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	12	9.2%	88^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	38	37.6%	94^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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