Toby Roth, former Representative for Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Roth sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 1996. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Roth is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Roth sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (20%) International Affairs (15%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (14%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Commerce (12%) Labor and Employment (10%) Private Legislation (8%) Law (8%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

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From Jan 1979 to Sep 1996, Roth missed 468 of 9,121 roll call votes, which is 5.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1979 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1979 Apr-Jun	221	19	8.6%	62^nd
1979 Jul-Sep	198	13	6.6%	59^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	11	5.8%	24^th
1980 Jan-Mar	148	14	9.5%	57^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	0	0.0%	0^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	14	7.3%	51^st
1980 Oct-Dec	67	11	16.4%	62^nd
1981 Jan-Mar	15	3	20.0%	82^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	90	2	2.2%	21^st
1981 Jul-Sep	106	13	12.3%	82^nd
1981 Oct-Dec	142	17	12.0%	75^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	5	4.2%	50^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	20	10.4%	77^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	2	2.0%	15^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	8	18.6%	87^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	2	1.1%	11^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	3	2.3%	36^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	6	11.3%	75^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	34	15.2%	86^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	1	1.0%	18^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	3	8.3%	57^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	76^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	3	1.9%	20^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	15	14.9%	94^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	23	15.5%	97^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	14	23.0%	91^st
1986 Apr-Jun	128	3	2.3%	39^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	8	4.0%	54^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	5	2.7%	36^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	41^st
1987 Oct-Dec	167	8	4.8%	37^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	2	4.1%	38^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	10	6.2%	63^rd
1988 Jul-Sep	152	14	9.2%	77^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	3	3.4%	57^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	6	5.7%	68^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	1	0.8%	18^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	10	8.3%	79^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	89^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	26^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	3	2.2%	35^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	2	2.5%	31^st
1991 Oct-Nov	162	3	1.9%	37^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	72^nd
1992 Apr-Jun	185	8	4.3%	60^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	4	2.0%	45^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	2	1.6%	39^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	2	1.1%	21^st
1993 Jul-Sep	164	5	3.0%	65^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	2	1.5%	45^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	6	6.3%	76^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	4	1.8%	44^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	10	7.0%	81^st
1994 Oct-Nov	51	1	2.0%	47^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	12	4.3%	83^rd
1995 Apr-Jun	189	1	0.5%	17^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	15^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	13	7.0%	84^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	4	3.6%	61^st
1996 Apr-Jun	182	18	9.9%	89^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	18	11.0%	92^nd

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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