Ben Campbell, former Senator from Colorado

Dates	Title	Representing
1993-2004	Senator	Colorado
1987-1992	Representative	Colorado's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Campbell was a moderate Republican leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Campbell’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Campbell to other members of the Senate in the 108^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Feb 1993 to Dec 2004, Campbell missed 165 of 4,235 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2004. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1993 Feb-Mar	93	2	2.2%	78^th
1993 Apr-Jun	99	3	3.0%	67^th
1993 Jul-Sep	109	4	3.7%	82^nd
1993 Oct-Nov	94	6	6.4%	90^th
1994 Jan-Mar	86	6	7.0%	76^th
1994 Apr-Jun	92	1	1.1%	36^th
1994 Jul-Sep	136	12	8.8%	96^th
1994 Oct-Dec	15	1	6.7%	73^rd
1995 Jan-Mar	125	2	1.6%	54^th
1995 Apr-Jun	171	4	2.3%	68^th
1995 Jul-Sep	184	5	2.7%	75^th
1995 Oct-Dec	133	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jan-Mar	60	7	11.7%	95^th
1996 Apr-Jun	122	6	4.9%	98^th
1996 Jul-Sep	121	9	7.4%	95^th
1996 Oct-Oct	3	3	100.0%	97^th
1997 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	125	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jul-Sep	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	35	2	5.7%	81^st
1998 Jan-Mar	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	131	1	0.8%	54^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	111	2	1.8%	61^st
1999 Jul-Sep	112	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	70	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Feb-Mar	51	3	5.9%	90^th
2000 Apr-Jun	120	2	1.7%	62^nd
2000 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	38	3	7.9%	68^th
2001 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	157	3	1.9%	77^th
2001 Jul-Sep	68	1	1.5%	48^th
2001 Oct-Dec	92	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	59	4	6.8%	71^st
2002 Apr-Jun	107	7	6.5%	91^st
2002 Jul-Sep	61	1	1.6%	48^th
2002 Oct-Nov	26	1	3.8%	79^th
2003 Jan-Mar	112	2	1.8%	57^th
2003 Apr-Jun	150	14	9.3%	93^rd
2003 Jul-Sep	108	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Oct-Nov	89	7	7.9%	89^th
2004 Jan-Mar	64	7	10.9%	93^rd
2004 Apr-Jun	88	9	10.2%	95^th
2004 Jul-Sep	42	14	33.3%	96^th
2004 Oct-Dec	22	11	50.0%	95^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills