Rep. Stephen Solarz

Former Representative for New York’s 13^th District

Solarz was the representative for New York’s 13^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1975 to 1992.

Bioguide

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Solarz 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 Solarz sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Solarz was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 13 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

Solarz sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (58%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Solarz recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1975 to Oct 1992, Solarz missed 744 of 9,468 roll call votes, which is 7.9%. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	68	3	4.4%	46^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	9	4.5%	44^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	6	3.9%	37^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	30	15.7%	88^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	4	3.8%	38^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	24	9.0%	57^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	5	1.8%	18^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	1	1.0%	16^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	8	2.9%	25^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	9	4.5%	47^th
1977 Oct-Dec	135	1	0.7%	14^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	6	4.0%	33^rd
1978 Apr-Jun	300	34	11.3%	65^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	18	5.8%	41^st
1978 Oct-Oct	76	4	5.3%	47^th
1979 Jan-Mar	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	7	3.2%	26^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	12	6.1%	51^st
1979 Oct-Dec	190	27	14.2%	72^nd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	8	5.4%	31^st
1980 Apr-Jun	197	26	13.2%	76^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	17	8.9%	60^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	4	6.0%	38^th
1981 Jan-Mar	13	2	15.4%	83^rd
1981 Apr-Jun	90	15	16.7%	86^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	5	4.7%	49^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	13	9.2%	64^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	4	3.4%	41^st
1982 Jul-Sep	193	7	3.6%	33^rd
1982 Oct-Dec	99	3	3.0%	22^nd
1983 Jan-Mar	43	5	11.6%	68^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	18	9.9%	67^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	67^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	85	59.4%	100^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	11	20.8%	89^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	16	7.2%	55^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	1	1.0%	18^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	5	13.9%	78^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	52^nd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	12	7.8%	74^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	9	8.9%	78^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	5	3.4%	47^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	15	24.6%	94^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	1	0.8%	14^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	6	3.0%	46^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	9	15.0%	87^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	36^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	8	4.3%	49^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	16	9.6%	73^rd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	3	6.1%	57^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	7	4.3%	54^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	8	5.3%	57^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	6	6.7%	72^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	8	6.2%	80^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	3	2.5%	32^nd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	4	6.7%	74^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	8	5.3%	70^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	7	3.8%	60^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	12	8.4%	78^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	3	4.8%	64^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	7	5.0%	65^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	44^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	35^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	2	3.0%	46^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	10	5.4%	60^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	93	47.4%	98^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	12	29.3%	93^rd

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