Rodino was the representative for New Jersey’s 10th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1949 to 1988.
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Rodino is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1988 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Rodino sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1983 to Oct 22, 1988. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Rodino was the primary sponsor of 73 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 5115 (100th): Immigration Amendments of 1988
- H.R. 2969 (100th): Retiree Benefits Bankruptcy Protection Act of 1988
- H.R. 4263 (100th): A bill to designate interstate route I-195 in the State of New Jersey as the “James J. Howard Interstate Highway”.
- H.R. 2939 (100th): Independent Counsel Reauthorization Act of 1987
- H.R. 3226 (100th): A bill to amend the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 to permit certain participants in the White House Conference for a Drug Free America to be allowed ...
- H.R. 807 (100th): Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987
- H.R. 4444 (99th): Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1986
Does 73 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Rodino sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Crime and Law Enforcement (22%) Government Operations and Politics (17%) Immigration (14%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) International Affairs (10%) Commerce (9%) Law (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Rodino’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Res. 512 (100th): A resolution providing that a message be sent to the Senate informing ...
- H.Res. 513 (100th): A resolution providing certain authorities to the managers on the part of ...
- H.Res. 511 (100th): A resolution appointing managers on the part of the House in the ...
- H.R. 5115 (100th): Immigration Amendments of 1988
- H.R. 4774 (100th): A bill to revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general ...
- H.R. 4710 (100th): Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1989 and 1990
- H.R. 4563 (100th): INTERPOL Authorities Act of 1988
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1949 to Oct 1988, Rodino missed 1,781 of 12,274 roll call votes, which is 14.5%. This is much worse than the median of 5.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
