Roman Hruska, former Senator for Nebraska

Hruska was a senator from Nebraska and was a Republican. He served from 1954 to 1976.

He was previously the representative for Nebraska’s 2^nd congressional district as a Republican from 1953 to 1954.

Photo of Sen. Roman Hruska [R-NE, 1954-1976]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hruska is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1976 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 Hruska sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 1, 1976. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Hruska was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

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Does 7 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

Hruska sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Crime and Law Enforcement (28%) Law (23%) Private Legislation (18%) Government Operations and Politics (11%) International Affairs (7%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (4%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (4%) Finance and Financial Sector (4%)

Recent Bills

Some of Hruska’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1954 to Oct 1976, Hruska missed 865 of 7,079 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is on par with the median of 13.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1976. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	6	23.1%	94^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	2	5.3%	22^nd
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	33	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	12	26.7%	95^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	86	9	10.5%	73^rd
1958 Jul-Aug	76	18	23.7%	95^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	2	3.5%	41^st
1959 May-Aug	128	8	6.2%	48^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	8	26.7%	82^nd
1960 Jan-Apr	79	10	12.7%	58^th
1960 May-Aug	123	32	26.0%	88^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	137	28	20.4%	95^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	4	11.1%	46^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	8	12.9%	68^th
1962 Jul-Sep	122	21	17.2%	66^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	2	11.1%	63^rd
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	73	7	9.6%	51^st
1963 Jul-Sep	61	17	27.9%	87^th
1963 Oct-Dec	87	20	23.0%	76^th
1964 Jan-Mar	60	9	15.0%	87^th
1964 Apr-Jun	138	7	5.1%	71^st
1964 Jul-Sep	106	25	23.6%	84^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	1	100.0%	75^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	4	12.5%	50^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	11	10.4%	26^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	21	19.8%	83^rd
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	2	7.1%	26^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	6	10.7%	19^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	5	4.2%	19^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	20	57.1%	79^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	15	28.3%	74^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	4	5.7%	20^th
1967 Jul-Sep	81	8	9.9%	35^th
1967 Oct-Dec	111	22	19.8%	59^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	11	15.9%	59^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	16	16.7%	43^rd
1968 Jul-Sep	89	42	47.2%	89^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	3	11.1%	31^st
1969 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	34^th
1969 Apr-Jun	26	2	7.7%	34^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	4	9.1%	51^st
1969 Oct-Dec	158	7	4.4%	9^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	9	9.0%	38^th
1970 Apr-Jun	92	8	8.7%	35^th
1970 Jul-Sep	123	18	14.6%	32^nd
1970 Oct-Dec	106	18	17.0%	47^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	3	12.0%	34^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	9	10.1%	19^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	18	16.5%	55^th
1971 Oct-Dec	202	32	15.8%	57^th
1972 Jan-Mar	119	6	5.0%	17^th
1972 Apr-Jun	130	9	6.9%	19^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	12	5.8%	31^st
1972 Oct-Oct	75	7	9.3%	42^nd
1973 Jan-Mar	67	1	1.5%	12^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	19	9.9%	49^th
1973 Jul-Sep	167	18	10.8%	57^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	2	1.2%	3^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	94	2	2.1%	14^th
1974 Apr-Jun	179	8	4.5%	22^nd
1974 Jul-Sep	138	4	2.9%	11^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	12	9.0%	38^th
1975 Jan-Mar	118	6	5.1%	39^th
1975 Apr-Jun	141	15	10.6%	54^th
1975 Jul-Sep	170	16	9.4%	55^th
1975 Oct-Dec	182	17	9.3%	46^th
1976 Jan-Mar	109	21	19.3%	77^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	44	16.7%	62^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	315	67	21.3%	72^nd
1976 Oct-Oct	13	4	30.8%	50^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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