William Orton, former Representative for Utah's 3rd Congressional District

Orton was the representative for Utah’s 3^rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1991 to 1996.

Photo of Rep. William Orton [D-UT3, 1991-1996]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Orton is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1996 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 Orton sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Orton sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (21%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Housing and Community Development (13%) Taxation (12%) Law (11%) Finance and Financial Sector (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (10%) Families (8%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1991 to Sep 1996, Orton missed 69 of 3,394 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with 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
1991 Jan-Mar	62	1	1.6%	31^st
1991 Apr-Jun	139	14	10.1%	90^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	6	7.4%	73^rd
1991 Oct-Nov	162	2	1.2%	27^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	6	9.1%	77^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	1	0.5%	10^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	8	4.1%	60^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	1	0.8%	24^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	1	0.6%	22^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	134	6	4.5%	78^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	7	7.4%	79^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	4	1.8%	44^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	2	1.4%	30^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	6	2.2%	66^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	3	1.6%	41^st
1995 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	15^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	0	0.0%	0^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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Rep. William Orton

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