Ted Strickland, former Representative for Ohio's 6th Congressional District

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Strickland was the representative for Ohio’s 6^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1997 to 2006.

He was previously the representative for Ohio’s 6^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1993 to 1994.

Photo of Rep. Ted Strickland [D-OH6, 1997-2006]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Strickland is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2006 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 Strickland sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2001 to Dec 8, 2006. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Strickland sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (19%) Health (16%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Law (11%) Families (10%) Social Welfare (10%) Commerce (9%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1993 to Dec 2006, Strickland missed 364 of 6,954 roll call votes, which is 5.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1993 Jan-Mar	127	5	3.9%	70^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	26^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	3	1.4%	40^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	1	0.7%	21^st
1994 Oct-Nov	51	3	5.9%	80^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	7	9.9%	91^st
1997 Apr-Jun	174	1	0.6%	18^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	16^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	3	1.8%	47^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	27^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	2	1.1%	33^rd
1998 Jul-Sep	199	1	0.5%	18^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	1	1.4%	40^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	2	2.6%	54^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	1	0.5%	16^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	2	1.4%	34^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	1	1.1%	22^nd
2000 Apr-Jun	277	13	4.7%	73^rd
2000 Jul-Sep	130	1	0.8%	27^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	7	6.9%	50^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	4	5.3%	75^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	2	1.5%	34^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	3	2.0%	45^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	1	1.6%	39^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	1	0.4%	15^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	2	1.0%	32^nd
2003 Oct-Dec	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	3	2.9%	41^st
2004 Apr-Jun	221	8	3.6%	59^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	6	3.7%	57^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	25	9.2%	92^nd
2005 Jul-Sep	146	19	13.0%	94^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	22	13.5%	92^nd
2006 Jan-Mar	81	17	21.0%	96^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	67	24.3%	98^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	102	64.2%	100^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	25	92.6%	99^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

Rep. Ted Strickland

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