Steven Kuykendall, former Representative for California's 36th Congressional District

On GovTrack Insider:

Quiet Communities Act would recreate an EPA office dismantled in 1981

The EPA dissolved one of its own offices dealing with noise pollution in 1981. Should it be brought back? Sep 18, 2018

Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund video games?

We all love video games, but should your tax money be spent to fund their creation? Sep 17, 2018

Kuykendall was the representative for California’s 36^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1999 to 2000.

Photo of Rep. Steven Kuykendall [R-CA36, 1999-2000]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Kuykendall is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2000 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 Kuykendall sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Kuykendall sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (19%) Transportation and Public Works (15%) Labor and Employment (15%) Taxation (15%) Law (11%) Government Operations and Politics (11%) Sports and Recreation (7%) Economics and Public Finance (7%)

Recent Bills

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

View All » | View Cosponsors »

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1999 to Dec 2000, Kuykendall missed 46 of 1,214 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is on par with the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2000. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1999 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	8	4.3%	76^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	2	1.0%	33^rd
1999 Oct-Nov	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	6	6.3%	68^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	27	9.7%	89^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	26^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	2	2.0%	15^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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

Steven Kuykendall is pronounced:

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

Rep. Steven Kuykendall

Links

Follow GovTrack on social media for more updates: