Sen. Brockman “Brock” Adams

Sponsorship Analysis

Adams was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Adams’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Adams to other members of the Senate in the 102^nd Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

• S. 3339 (102nd): Supportive Services in Housing Act of 1992
• S. 3344 (102nd): Mature and Older Workers Act of 1992
• S. 3350 (102nd): National Organ Donor and Awareness Campaign Act of 1992
• S. 3284 (102nd): A bill to authorize United States participation in the Cascadia Corridor Commission.
• S. 3184 (102nd): Private Pension Reform Act-Retirement 2000
• S. 3186 (102nd): Ethics in Referrals and Billing Act of 1992
• S. 3008 (102nd): Older Americans Act Amendments of 1992

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Voting Record

From Jan 1987 to Oct 1992, Adams missed 67 of 1,986 roll call votes, which is 3.4%. This is better than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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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
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills