Steven Schiff, former U.S. Representative for New Mexico's 1st Congressional District

Dates	Title / State / District
1989-1998	Representative, New Mexico's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Schiff was a centrist Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Schiff’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Schiff’s bills had a total of 25 cosponsors in the 105^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Schiff to other members of the House of Representatives in the 105^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1989 to Mar 1998, Schiff missed 751 of 5,008 roll call votes, which is 15.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1998. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	55^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	3	2.5%	35^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	35^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	4	2.7%	49^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	1	0.5%	18^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	2	1.4%	29^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	6	7.4%	75^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	2	1.2%	28^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	6	9.1%	78^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	3	1.6%	29^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	7	3.6%	57^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	3	2.4%	52^nd
1993 Apr-Jun	190	3	1.6%	34^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	24^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	46^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	9	9.5%	87^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	2	0.9%	30^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	3	2.1%	42^nd
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	3	1.1%	46^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	4	2.1%	52^nd
1995 Jul-Sep	232	3	1.3%	41^st
1995 Oct-Dec	185	4	2.2%	52^nd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	25	13.7%	97^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	6	3.7%	69^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	8	11.3%	95^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	174	100.0%	100^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	232	100.0%	100^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	163	100.0%	100^th
1998 Jan-Mar	70	70	100.0%	100^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Steven Schiff [R-NM1, 1989-1998] leaves office as Representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district

Mar 25, 1998

Elections and Offices

Rep. Steven Schiff [R-NM1, 1989-1998] takes office as Representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district

Jan 03, 1989

Rep. Steven Schiff

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bills Sponsored

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices