Rep. Paul “Pete” McCloskey

Former Representative for California’s 12^th District

McCloskey was the representative for California’s 12^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1975 to 1982.

He was previously the representative for California’s 17^th congressional district as a Republican from 1973 to 1974; and the representative for California’s 11^th congressional district as a Republican from 1967 to 1972.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

McCloskey is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1982 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 McCloskey sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 1977 to Dec 21, 1982. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

McCloskey was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

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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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

McCloskey sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (29%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Environmental Protection (12%) Water Resources Development (11%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Labor and Employment (9%) Energy (7%) Crime and Law Enforcement (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

McCloskey recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1967 to Dec 1982, McCloskey missed 1,578 of 7,307 roll call votes, which is 21.6%. This is much worse than the median of 7.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1982. 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 Oct-Dec	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	1	1.3%	29^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	1	1.1%	16^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	4	14.3%	67^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	3	6.7%	37^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	19	21.6%	83^rd
1970 Jan-Mar	35	13	37.1%	92^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	74	20	27.0%	79^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	6	7.9%	35^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	9	11.1%	34^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	54^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	17	18.9%	78^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	18	24.3%	89^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	51	38.1%	94^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	28	43.8%	95^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	52	45.6%	95^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	16	15.8%	69^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	3	6.0%	30^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	6	16.7%	75^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	13	6.8%	41^st
1973 Jul-Sep	131	1	0.8%	10^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	6	3.3%	27^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	12	15.2%	77^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	51	30.0%	95^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	15	10.1%	80^th
1974 Oct-Dec	141	22	15.6%	72^nd
1975 Jan-Mar	68	18	26.5%	97^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	13	6.5%	54^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	25	16.2%	88^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	26	13.6%	87^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	21	19.8%	92^nd
1976 Apr-Jun	267	72	27.0%	93^rd
1976 Jul-Sep	281	55	19.6%	90^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	10	10.0%	74^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	33	12.1%	76^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	27	13.6%	81^st
1977 Oct-Dec	135	27	20.0%	92^nd
1978 Jan-Mar	150	32	21.3%	91^st
1978 Apr-Jun	300	99	33.0%	96^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	29	9.4%	60^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	1	1.3%	13^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	19	30.2%	92^nd
1979 Apr-Jun	221	22	10.0%	68^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	30	15.2%	84^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	73	38.4%	98^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	85	57.4%	99^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	35	17.8%	86^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	49	25.5%	93^rd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	42	62.7%	98^th
1981 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	10	11.1%	69^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	38	35.8%	98^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	102	71.8%	100^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	34	70.8%	99^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	37	31.1%	94^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	78	40.4%	94^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	47	47.5%	94^th

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