Rep. Edward Roybal
Former Representative for California’s 25th District
Roybal was the representative for California’s 25th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1975 to 1992.
He was previously the representative for California’s 30th congressional district as a Democrat from 1963 to 1974.
![Photo of Rep. Edward Roybal [D-CA25, 1975-1992]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/409446-200px.jpeg)
Misconduct
On Sep. 27, 1978, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct investigated Roybal for failing to report campaign contributions, converting campaign funds to personal use, and making a false statement to the Standards committee and recommended censure. On Oct. 13, 1978, the House of Representatives rejected the censure recommendation, 219-170; but reprimanded him by voice vote.
Sep. 27, 1978 | House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct conducted inquiry and recommended censure |
Oct. 13, 1978 | House of Representatives rejected the censure recommendation, 219-170; reprimanded, voice vote |
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Roybal is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1992 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 Roybal sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 9, 1992. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Roybal was the primary sponsor of 17 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 5488 (102nd): Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1993
- H.R. 2622 (102nd): Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1992
- H.R. 5241 (101st): Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991
- H.R. 5794 (101st): Age Discrimination Claims Assistance Amendments of 1990
- H.J.Res. 453 (101st): Designating May 1990 as “National Digestive Disease Awareness Month”.
- H.R. 3200 (101st): Older Workers Benefit Protection Act
- H.R. 2989 (101st): Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1990
Does 17 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Roybal sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (35%) Social Welfare (27%) Economics and Public Finance (9%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Taxation (6%) Crime and Law Enforcement (5%) Immigration (5%) Armed Forces and National Security (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Roybal recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 5785 (102nd): National Organ Donor Awareness Campaign Act of 1992
- H.R. 5488 (102nd): Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1993
- H.R. 4438 (102nd): To designate the Federal building located at 501 West Ocean Boulevard in …
- H.J.Res. 421 (102nd): Designating April 22, 1992, as “Earth Day”.
- H.Res. 335 (102nd): Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for expenses of …
- H.Con.Res. 219 (102nd): Making corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 2622.
- H.R. 3535 (102nd): USHealth Program Act of 1991
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1963 to Oct 1992, Roybal missed 1,004 of 12,745 roll call votes, which is 7.9%. This is worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills