Sen. Daniel Coats

State:: Indiana
Party:: Republican

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2011-2017	Senator	Indiana
1989-1998	Senator	Indiana
1981-1988	Representative	Indiana's 4^th District

Track Him

Official Website: http://www.coats.senate.gov
@sendancoats

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Sponsorship Analysis

Coats is a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

Use this chart to compare Coats to other members of the Senate on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Daniel Coats sits on the following committees:

Joint Economic Committee
Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Member, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Member, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet
- Member, Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Innovation, and Export Promotion
- Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance
- Member, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
- Member, Subcommittee on Science and Space
- Member, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1989 to May 2013, Coats missed 77 of 4,060 roll call votes, which is 1.9%. This is worse than the median of 1.6% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1989 Jan-Mar	26	2	7.7%	88^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	1	0.8%	44^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	12	13.2%	94^th
1990 Jan-Mar	48	2	4.2%	69^th
1990 Apr-Jun	95	4	4.2%	75^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	1	1.4%	63^rd
1992 Jan-Mar	61	1	1.6%	56^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	56^th
1992 Jul-Sep	117	1	0.9%	31^st
1992 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Feb-Mar	93	1	1.1%	63^rd
1993 Apr-Jun	99	1	1.0%	42^nd
1993 Jul-Sep	109	5	4.6%	84^th
1993 Oct-Nov	94	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Apr-Jun	92	2	2.2%	63^rd
1994 Jul-Sep	136	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	125	2	1.6%	35^th
1995 Apr-Jun	171	2	1.2%	30^th
1995 Jul-Sep	184	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Oct-Dec	133	1	0.8%	45^th
1996 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	86^th
1996 Apr-Jun	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jul-Sep	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Oct-Oct	3	3	100.0%	90^th
1997 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	125	7	5.6%	86^th
1997 Jul-Sep	103	2	1.9%	72^nd
1997 Oct-Nov	35	3	8.6%	79^th
1998 Jan-Mar	52	8	15.4%	97^th
1998 Apr-Jun	131	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	2	1.8%	59^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jan-Mar	46	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	1	1.7%	28^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	50^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	1	1.2%	41^st
2012 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	1	0.9%	45^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	3	3.3%	89^th
2013 Apr-May	39	0	0.0%	0^th

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

May 16, 2013 1:51 p.m.