Sen. Roger Jepsen

Former Senator for Iowa

Jepsen was a senator from Iowa and was a Republican. He served from 1979 to 1984.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Roger Jepsen [R-IA, 1979-1984]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Jepsen is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1984 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 Jepsen sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 15, 1979 to Oct 12, 1984. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Jepsen was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:

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Does 6 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

Jepsen sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (26%) Social Welfare (14%) Agriculture and Food (14%) Education (12%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (8%) Economics and Public Finance (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Jepsen recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1979 to Oct 1984, Jepsen missed 160 of 2,680 roll call votes, which is 6.0%. This is on par with the median of 6.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1984. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Feb-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	7	5.8%	53^rd
1979 Jul-Sep	171	11	6.4%	39^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	36	19.6%	88^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	11	5.1%	30^th
1980 Jul-Sep	179	17	9.5%	62^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	84	11	13.1%	58^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	2	3.5%	58^th
1981 Apr-Jun	125	4	3.2%	47^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	2	1.6%	28^th
1981 Oct-Dec	193	6	3.1%	19^th
1982 Feb-Mar	79	1	1.3%	29^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	6	4.7%	55^th
1982 Jul-Sep	177	6	3.4%	47^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	1	1.2%	32^nd
1983 Feb-Mar	54	1	1.9%	34^th
1983 Apr-Jun	122	1	0.8%	18^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Oct-Nov	103	1	1.0%	12^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	6	13.3%	73^rd
1984 Apr-Jun	144	23	16.0%	88^th
1984 Jul-Sep	67	6	9.0%	76^th
1984 Oct-Oct	33	1	3.0%	51^st

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills