Robert Roe, former Representative for New Jersey's 8th Congressional District

Roe was the representative for New Jersey’s 8^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1969 to 1992.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Roe is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Roe sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Roe was the primary sponsor of 25 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 25 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

Roe sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (18%) Social Welfare (17%) Science, Technology, Communications (13%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (12%) Environmental Protection (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Health (11%) International Affairs (5%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Roe recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Nov 1969 to Oct 1992, Roe missed 1,056 of 11,508 roll call votes, which is 9.2%. This is worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. 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
1969 Oct-Dec	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	29^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	12	16.2%	44^th
1970 Jul-Sep	76	8	10.5%	42^nd
1970 Oct-Dec	81	17	21.0%	69^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	27^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	13	14.4%	55^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	4	5.4%	45^th
1971 Oct-Dec	134	4	3.0%	14^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	3	4.7%	29^th
1972 Apr-Jun	114	1	0.9%	11^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Oct-Oct	50	2	4.0%	25^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	3	1.6%	8^th
1973 Jul-Sep	131	38	29.0%	94^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	6	3.3%	26^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	12	7.1%	38^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	9	6.1%	52^nd
1974 Oct-Dec	141	17	12.1%	67^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	5	7.4%	66^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	8	4.0%	41^st
1975 Jul-Sep	154	5	3.2%	29^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	14	7.3%	63^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	106	4	3.8%	38^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	13	4.9%	28^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	15	5.3%	44^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	47	47.0%	97^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	207	75.8%	99^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	40	20.2%	91^st
1977 Oct-Dec	135	7	5.2%	49^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	5	3.3%	29^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	10	3.3%	24^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	18	5.8%	41^st
1978 Oct-Oct	76	6	7.9%	62^nd
1979 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	47^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	11	5.0%	37^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	11	5.6%	48^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	21	11.1%	58^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	15	10.1%	61^st
1980 Apr-Jun	197	11	5.6%	39^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	17	8.9%	60^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	7	10.4%	56^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	4	26.7%	91^st
1981 Apr-Jun	90	37	41.1%	100^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	3	2.8%	36^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	16	11.3%	71^st
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	6	5.0%	56^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	4	2.1%	17^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	16	16.2%	76^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	1	0.5%	5^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	11	8.5%	80^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	7	4.9%	46^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	14	6.3%	51^st
1984 Jul-Sep	96	3	3.1%	41^st
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	52^nd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	10	6.5%	65^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	4	4.0%	50^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	9	6.1%	67^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	12	19.7%	88^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	3	2.3%	37^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	3	1.5%	27^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	3	5.0%	56^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	36^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	11	5.9%	60^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	26	27.4%	98^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	13	7.8%	60^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	28^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	6	3.7%	47^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	19	12.5%	85^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	2	2.2%	49^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	84^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	10	9.5%	87^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	9	7.0%	85^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	27	22.3%	98^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	2	3.3%	53^rd
1990 Apr-Jun	150	9	6.0%	74^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	1	0.5%	14^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	9	6.3%	70^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	50^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	4	2.9%	45^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	1	1.2%	12^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	14	8.6%	86^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	4	6.1%	62^nd
1992 Apr-Jun	185	29	15.7%	89^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	25	12.8%	83^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	41	8	19.5%	89^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
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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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