Sen. Bill Nelson

State:: Florida
Party:: Democrat

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2001-2019	Senator	Florida
1983-1990	Representative	Florida's 11^th District
1979-1982	Representative	Florida's 9^th District

Track Him

Official Website: http://www.billnelson.senate.gov
@SenBillNelson

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Sponsorship Analysis

Nelson is a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

Use this chart to compare Nelson to other members of the Senate on leadership and ideology.

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

Committee Membership

Bill Nelson sits on the following committees:

Chairman, Senate Special Committee on Aging
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Science and Space
- Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet
- Member, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
Senate Committee on Armed Services
- Member, Subcommittee on Airland
- Member, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Member, Subcommittee on SeaPower
Senate Committee on the Budget
Senate Committee on Finance
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure
- Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
- Member, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 2001 to May 2013, Nelson missed 59 of 3,919 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is better than the median of 1.6% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2001 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	157	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	68	1	1.5%	48^th
2001 Oct-Dec	92	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	59	3	5.1%	70^th
2002 Apr-Jun	107	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jul-Sep	61	1	1.6%	42^nd
2002 Oct-Nov	26	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	112	1	0.9%	53^rd
2003 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	50^th
2003 Jul-Sep	108	1	0.9%	43^rd
2003 Oct-Nov	89	4	4.5%	85^th
2004 Jan-Mar	64	1	1.6%	55^th
2004 Apr-Jun	88	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jul-Sep	42	4	9.5%	93^rd
2004 Oct-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jul-Sep	76	2	2.6%	64^th
2005 Oct-Dec	120	3	2.5%	62^nd
2006 Jan-Mar	83	3	3.6%	78^th
2006 Apr-Jun	107	2	1.9%	57^th
2006 Jul-Sep	73	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	126	2	1.6%	55^th
2007 Apr-Jun	112	2	1.8%	61^st
2007 Jul-Sep	119	2	1.7%	48^th
2007 Oct-Dec	85	1	1.2%	57^th
2008 Jan-Mar	85	2	2.4%	68^th
2008 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	26^th
2008 Jul-Sep	47	1	2.1%	35^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	118	1	0.8%	57^th
2009 Apr-Jun	96	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Oct-Dec	94	2	2.1%	68^th
2010 Jan-Mar	108	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Apr-Jun	96	9	9.4%	91^st
2010 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	55^th
2010 Nov-Dec	51	1	2.0%	42^nd
2011 Jan-Mar	46	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	1	1.7%	28^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	1	1.2%	41^st
2012 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	1	0.9%	45^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-May	35	3	8.6%	91^st

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