Clifford Hansen, former Senator from Wyoming

Dates	Title	Representing
1967-1978	Senator	Wyoming

Sponsorship Analysis

Hansen was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Hansen’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Hansen to other members of the Senate in the 95^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 Jan 1967 to Oct 1978, Hansen missed 426 of 5,753 roll call votes, which is 7.4%. This is better than the median of 10.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	52	8	15.4%	60^th
1967 Apr-Jun	69	1	1.4%	10^th
1967 Jul-Sep	73	3	4.1%	25^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	19	17.3%	65^th
1968 Jan-Mar	66	5	7.6%	45^th
1968 Apr-Jun	95	22	23.2%	75^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	17	19.3%	65^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	23	3	13.0%	71^st
1969 Jul-Sep	43	2	4.7%	47^th
1969 Oct-Dec	152	5	3.3%	8^th
1970 Jan-Mar	99	0	0.0%	0^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	3	3.3%	16^th
1970 Jul-Sep	120	15	12.5%	35^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	3	2.9%	12^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	1	4.0%	14^th
1971 Apr-Jun	87	20	23.0%	72^nd
1971 Jul-Sep	109	12	11.0%	43^rd
1971 Oct-Dec	201	10	5.0%	21^st
1972 Jan-Mar	114	22	19.3%	62^nd
1972 Apr-Jun	128	32	25.0%	72^nd
1972 Jul-Sep	206	29	14.1%	60^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	1	1.3%	12^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	14	20.9%	79^th
1973 Apr-Jun	192	17	8.9%	56^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	4	2.4%	25^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	5	3.0%	17^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	24	25.8%	93^rd
1974 Apr-Jun	177	7	4.0%	27^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	8	5.8%	30^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	13	9.8%	47^th
1975 Jan-Mar	116	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	140	8	5.7%	28^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	6	3.6%	17^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	9	5.0%	33^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	103	10	9.7%	59^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	6	2.3%	7^th
1976 Jul-Sep	313	31	9.9%	46^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	2	15.4%	44^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	3	3.3%	18^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	3	1.7%	11^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	3	1.3%	15^th
1977 Oct-Dec	131	3	2.3%	16^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	2	2.6%	7^th
1978 Apr-Jun	118	1	0.8%	15^th
1978 Jul-Sep	234	12	5.1%	24^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	2	2.4%	18^th

Primary Sources

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

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Clifford Hansen [R-WY, 1967-1978] leaves office as Senator from Wyoming

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Sen. Clifford Hansen [R-WY, 1967-1978] takes office as Senator from Wyoming

Jan 10, 1967

Sen. Clifford Hansen

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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