Pucinski was the representative for Illinois’s 11th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1959 to 1972.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1959 to Oct 1972, Pucinski missed 301 of 2,615 roll call votes, which is 11.5%. This is on par with the median of 10.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1972. 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
