Rep. Bob Schaffer
Former Representative from Colorado's 4th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Colorado's 4th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Schaffer was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Schaffer’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Schaffer to other members of the House of Representatives in the 107th 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
Some of Schaffer’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.Con.Res. 497 (107th): Supporting the goals and ideas of National Take Your Kids to Vote ...
- H.R. 5308 (107th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at ...
- H.Con.Res. 457 (107th): Honoring Rick Lee Schwartz and Milt Stollak, who died in a plane ...
- H.R. 5232 (107th): To provide a cost-sharing requirement for the construction of the Arkansas Valley ...
- H.R. 5193 (107th): Back to School Tax Relief Act of 2002
- H.R. 5192 (107th): Education Freedom Act
- H.R. 3953 (107th): To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1997 to Nov 2002, Schaffer missed 151 of 3,397 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills