Rep. Bruce Vento
Former Representative from Minnesota's 4th District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Minnesota's 4th District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Vento was a 0.199406836776 according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Vento’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Vento to other members of the House of Representatives in the 106th 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 Vento’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 2882 (106th): Internet Consumer Information Protection Act
- H.Res. 169 (106th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to democracy, ...
- H.R. 1239 (106th): Morris K. Udall Wilderness Act of 1997
- H.R. 1207 (106th): American Natural Resources and Taxpayer Protection Act of 1999
- H.R. 629 (106th): Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Amendments Act of of 1999
- H.R. 566 (106th): Stand Down Authorization Act
- H.R. 371 (106th): Hmong Veterans’ Naturalization Act of 2000
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Voting Record
From Jan 1977 to Oct 2000, Vento missed 708 of 12,936 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. This is worse than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 2000. 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
- 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