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Rep. Mel Reynolds

Former Representative from Illinois’s 2^nd District, Democrat

Reynolds, a Democrat, was the representative for Illinois's 2^nd congressional district from 1993 to 1995.

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Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Reynolds 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 1996. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Reynolds is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Reynolds sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Crime and Law Enforcement (26%) Taxation (26%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (17%) Health (13%) Commerce (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1993 to Sep 1995, Reynolds missed 451 of 1,822 roll call votes, which is 24.8%. This is much worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1995. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1993 Jan-Mar	127	3	2.4%	50^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	3	1.6%	33^rd
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	22^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	8	6.0%	86^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	31	32.6%	99^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	50	22.8%	99^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	34	23.9%	99^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	15	5.4%	87^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	74	39.2%	100^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	232	100.0%	100^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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