William Frenzel, former Representative for Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District

Frenzel was the representative for Minnesota’s 3^rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1971 to 1990.

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Frenzel is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1990 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 Frenzel sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1985 to Oct 27, 1990. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Frenzel was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

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Does 7 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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

Frenzel sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Foreign Trade and International Finance (39%) Taxation (29%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Economics and Public Finance (7%) Labor and Employment (5%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1971 to Oct 1990, Frenzel missed 881 of 10,267 roll call votes, which is 8.6%. This is worse than the median of 4.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1990. 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
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	26^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	11	12.2%	45^th
1971 Jul-Sep	74	14	18.9%	81^st
1971 Oct-Dec	134	7	5.2%	23^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	64	2	3.1%	23^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	11	9.6%	44^th
1972 Jul-Sep	101	7	6.9%	43^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	5	10.0%	41^st
1973 Jan-Mar	36	3	8.3%	56^th
1973 Apr-Jun	191	13	6.8%	42^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	131	14	10.7%	77^th
1973 Oct-Dec	182	1	0.5%	9^th
1974 Jan-Mar	79	14	17.7%	87^th
1974 Apr-Jun	170	30	17.6%	83^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	148	3	2.0%	21^st
1974 Oct-Dec	141	1	0.7%	7^th
1975 Jan-Mar	68	6	8.8%	70^th
1975 Apr-Jun	199	18	9.0%	66^th
1975 Jul-Sep	154	8	5.2%	46^th
1975 Oct-Dec	191	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Jan-Mar	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1976 Apr-Jun	267	63	23.6%	86^th
1976 Jul-Sep	281	8	2.8%	24^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	69^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	6	6.0%	55^th
1977 Apr-Jun	273	21	7.7%	54^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	42	21.2%	93^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	135	7	5.2%	48^th
1978 Jan-Mar	150	4	2.7%	25^th
1978 Apr-Jun	300	48	16.0%	76^th
1978 Jul-Sep	308	21	6.8%	45^th
1978 Oct-Oct	76	3	3.9%	37^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	19	30.2%	92^nd
1979 Apr-Jun	221	37	16.7%	89^th
1979 Jul-Sep	198	13	6.6%	57^th
1979 Oct-Dec	190	12	6.3%	33^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	148	15	10.1%	59^th
1980 Apr-Jun	197	27	13.7%	75^th
1980 Jul-Sep	192	2	1.0%	11^th
1980 Oct-Dec	67	13	19.4%	75^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	47^th
1981 Apr-Jun	90	12	13.3%	79^th
1981 Jul-Sep	106	21	19.8%	93^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	142	5	3.5%	29^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	2	4.2%	39^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	6	5.0%	56^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	11	5.7%	49^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jan-Mar	43	3	7.0%	46^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	27	14.8%	84^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	7	5.4%	64^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	2	1.4%	13^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	15	28.3%	95^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	7	3.1%	30^th
1984 Jul-Sep	96	4	4.2%	46^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	77^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	12	7.8%	73^rd
1985 Jul-Sep	101	3	3.0%	39^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	11	7.4%	75^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	8	13.1%	73^rd
1986 Apr-Jun	128	4	3.1%	44^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	9	4.5%	56^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	1	1.7%	34^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	4	10.3%	78^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	29	15.5%	93^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	68^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	10	6.0%	46^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	1	2.0%	27^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	24	14.9%	94^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	8	5.3%	55^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	6	5.7%	67^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	14	10.9%	94^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	5	4.1%	51^st
1990 Jan-Mar	60	9	15.0%	92^nd
1990 Apr-Jun	150	23	15.3%	92^nd
1990 Jul-Sep	183	17	9.3%	86^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	18	12.6%	89^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
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

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