Rep. Matthew Martínez

Sponsorship 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 is a member of the House of Representatives. 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

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

• H.R. 4854 (106th): EMS Employee Equality Act of 2000
• H.R. 3545 (106th): IDEA Full Funding Act of 2000
• H.R. 3551 (106th): For the relief of Gui Di Chen.
• H.R. 2390 (106th): Smart Classrooms Act
• H.R. 1637 (106th): Older Americans Act Amendments of 1999
• H.R. 1341 (106th): To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a national ...
• H.R. 3880 (105th): Human Services Amendments of 1998

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Voting Record

From Jul 1982 to Dec 2000, Martínez missed 1,085 of 9,712 roll call votes, which is 11.2%. This is 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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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
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills