Robert McEwen, former Representative for New York's 30th Congressional District

McEwen was the representative for New York’s 30^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1973 to 1980.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 31^st congressional district as a Republican from 1965 to 1972.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

McEwen is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1980 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 McEwen sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 14, 1975 to Dec 13, 1980. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

McEwen 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

McEwen sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Sports and Recreation (33%) Government Operations and Politics (27%) Transportation and Public Works (7%) Law (7%) Health (7%) Social Welfare (7%) Labor and Employment (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

McEwen recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1965 to Dec 1980, McEwen missed 1,240 of 7,131 roll call votes, which is 17.4%. This is much worse than the median of 8.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1980. 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
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	10	18.9%	79^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	30	30.6%	95^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	1	4.5%	22^nd
1966 Jan-Mar	30	3	10.0%	58^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	7	13.7%	60^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	31	43.1%	91^st
1966 Oct-Oct	40	24	60.0%	81^st
1967 Jan-Mar	31	2	6.5%	82^nd
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	44^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	8	13.6%	96^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	3	3.1%	58^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	50^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	3	3.3%	44^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	1	4.0%	37^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	3	18.8%	89^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	1	3.6%	23^rd
1969 Jul-Sep	45	5	11.1%	56^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	7	8.0%	33^rd
1970 Jan-Mar	35	16	45.7%	95^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	17	23.0%	68^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	23	30.3%	87^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	12	14.8%	48^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	55^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	22	24.4%	87^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	12	16.2%	79^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	23	17.2%	67^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	6	9.4%	47^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	31	27.2%	84^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	23	22.8%	83^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	9	18.0%	60^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	9	25.0%	88^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	12	6.3%	37^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	47	35.9%	97^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	22	12.1%	75^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	24	30.4%	97^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	25	14.7%	72^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	32	21.6%	93^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	1	0.7%	6^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	6	8.8%	63^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	199	37	18.6%	93^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	154	14	9.1%	71^st
1975 Oct-Dec	191	25	13.1%	84^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	25	23.6%	94^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	43	16.1%	78^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	27	9.6%	66^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	29	29.0%	97^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	38	13.9%	80^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	18	9.1%	66^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	18	13.3%	78^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	10	6.7%	43^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	31	10.3%	59^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	29	9.4%	59^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	10	13.2%	76^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	11	17.5%	80^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	47	21.3%	90^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	43	21.7%	91^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	56	29.5%	92^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	52	35.1%	94^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	77	39.1%	97^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	57	29.7%	92^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	67	27	40.3%	92^nd

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

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