Sen. Dale Bumpers

Sponsorship Analysis

Bumpers was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Bumpers’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Bumpers to other members of the Senate in the 105^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

• S. 2289 (105th): Grand Jury Reform Act of 1998
• S. 2232 (105th): A bill to establish the Little Rock Central High School National Historic ...
• S. 2171 (105th): A bill to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable ...
• S. 2030 (105th): Grand Jury Due Process Act
• S. 1973 (105th): Telephone Privacy Act of 1998
• S. 1586 (105th): Consumer and Main Street Protection Act of 1997
• S. 1401 (105th): Transition to Electric Competition Act of 1997

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Voting Record

From Jan 1975 to Oct 1998, Bumpers missed 691 of 10,089 roll call votes, which is 6.8%. This is worse than the median of 1.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1998. 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