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

Schiff was the representative for New Mexico’s 1^st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1989 to 1998.

Photo of Rep. Steven Schiff [R-NM1, 1989-1998]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Schiff is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1998 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 Schiff sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Schiff was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

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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

Schiff sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (22%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Science, Technology, Communications (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (11%) Law (11%) Commerce (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (8%) Social Welfare (8%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1989 to Mar 1998, Schiff missed 751 of 5,008 roll call votes, which is 15.0%. This is much 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 Eligible	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:

@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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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