Community Corner
O’Neill Achieves Perfect Voting Record for 2013 Session
State Representative Arthur J. O’Neill (R-69) has earned a one hundred percent voting record for all roll call votes taken on the floor of the House of Representatives during the 2013 Regular Session. The House Clerk’s Office released the data on members’ votes this week.
“I have always made my top priority the people of the 69th District, and I am proud to have cast all 424 votes taken in the House in order to ensure their voices are heard in Hartford on all issues,” said Rep. O’Neill, the House Republican Leader-At-Large. “This year in particular the General Assembly considered some controversial, beneficial and far-reaching legislation, and every vote counted. It is my honor to serve in this position and dedicate my time to weighing in on the important issues facing our state and community.”
Perfect attendance is very difficult to achieve, and less than one third of his legislative colleagues in the House were able to attain it this year.
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Rep. O’Neill has had perfect attendance ten of the past twelve years, which includes the casting nearly 3,500 votes for the people of the 69th District.
During many of those years well over 300 or 400 votes were cast, including in 2005 when a decade-high 460 roll call votes were taken and Rep. O’Neill did not miss one.
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Missed votes can be the result of everything from personal illness to the attendance of a funeral, and a perfect voting record – particularly throughout multiple years – is indicative of deliberate dedication and commitment.
The next regular session of the legislature will convene in February of 2014. Rep. O’Neill is the longest serving Republican in the House of Representatives. He serves on the Legislative Management, Appropriations, Regulations Review and Judiciary Committees.
