Rep. Floyd Flake

Former Representative for New York’s 6^th District

Flake was the representative for New York’s 6^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1987 to 1997.

Bioguide

Photo of Rep. Floyd Flake [D-NY6, 1987-1997]

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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Flake is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 1998 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 Flake sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 5, 1993 to Dec 17, 1998. See full analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Flake sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (17%) Commerce (13%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Education (13%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Taxation (10%) Transportation and Public Works (10%) Health (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Flake recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1987 to Nov 1997, Flake missed 740 of 5,877 roll call votes, which is 12.6%. This is much worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1997. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	39	5	12.8%	84^th
1987 Apr-Jun	187	36	19.3%	95^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	15	15.8%	93^rd
1987 Oct-Dec	167	23	13.8%	87^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	8	16.3%	89^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	28	17.4%	95^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	19	12.5%	83^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	14	3	21.4%	94^th
1989 Apr-Jun	105	15	14.3%	96^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	11	8.6%	94^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	11	9.1%	83^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	60	9	15.0%	94^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	5	3.3%	59^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	32	17.5%	96^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	9	6.3%	70^th
1991 Jan-Mar	62	22	35.5%	100^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	3	2.2%	38^th
1991 Jul-Sep	81	6	7.4%	75^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	11	6.8%	85^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	73^rd
1992 Apr-Jun	185	19	10.3%	89^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	17	8.7%	85^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	9	22.0%	94^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	11	8.7%	91^st
1993 Apr-Jun	190	26	13.7%	95^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	5	3.0%	69^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	14	10.4%	94^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	8	8.4%	84^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	29	13.2%	97^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	21	14.8%	96^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	2	3.9%	69^th
1995 Jan-Mar	279	29	10.4%	96^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	18	9.5%	92^nd
1995 Jul-Sep	232	21	9.1%	92^nd
1995 Oct-Dec	185	18	9.7%	93^rd
1996 Jan-Mar	110	14	12.7%	94^th
1996 Apr-Jun	182	36	19.8%	99^th
1996 Jul-Sep	163	30	18.4%	99^th
1997 Jan-Mar	71	13	18.3%	98^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	48	27.6%	99^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	33	14.2%	97^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	43	26.4%	98^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills