Gary Hart, former Senator from Colorado

Dates	Title	Representing
1975-1986	Senator	Colorado

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Hart to other members of the Senate in the 99^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 1975 to Oct 1986, Hart missed 665 of 5,859 roll call votes, which is 11.4%. This is worse than the median of 5.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1975 Jan-Mar	117	11	9.4%	72^nd
1975 Apr-Jun	140	17	12.1%	69^th
1975 Jul-Sep	167	7	4.2%	25^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	8	4.4%	25^th
1976 Jan-Mar	103	13	12.6%	67^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	23	8.7%	42^nd
1976 Jul-Sep	313	30	9.6%	31^st
1976 Oct-Oct	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	6	6.5%	45^th
1977 Apr-Jun	178	9	5.1%	39^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	21	9.0%	73^rd
1977 Oct-Dec	132	3	2.3%	12^th
1978 Jan-Mar	78	3	3.8%	20^th
1978 Apr-Jun	119	7	5.9%	57^th
1978 Jul-Sep	235	16	6.8%	35^th
1978 Oct-Oct	85	4	4.7%	37^th
1979 Feb-Mar	32	2	6.3%	49^th
1979 Apr-Jun	121	7	5.8%	57^th
1979 Jul-Sep	170	7	4.1%	29^th
1979 Oct-Dec	184	5	2.7%	15^th
1980 Jan-Mar	67	6	9.0%	66^th
1980 Apr-Jun	216	22	10.2%	61^st
1980 Jul-Sep	178	16	9.0%	62^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	84	23	27.4%	87^th
1981 Jan-Mar	57	1	1.8%	32^nd
1981 Apr-Jun	123	8	6.5%	83^rd
1981 Jul-Sep	122	4	3.3%	40^th
1981 Oct-Dec	192	23	12.0%	82^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	77	2	2.6%	56^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	4	3.1%	46^th
1982 Jul-Sep	176	6	3.4%	54^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	14	16.3%	90^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	15	27.8%	95^th
1983 Apr-Jun	121	56	46.3%	99^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	21	22.8%	91^st
1983 Oct-Nov	101	43	42.6%	96^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	42	93.3%	99^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	101	70.1%	99^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	27	39.7%	99^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	4	11.4%	75^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jul-Sep	59	1	1.7%	53^rd
1985 Oct-Dec	183	10	5.5%	64^th
1986 Jan-Mar	51	5	9.8%	80^th
1986 Apr-Jun	103	3	2.9%	54^th
1986 Jul-Sep	149	5	3.4%	66^th
1986 Oct-Oct	56	4	7.1%	76^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. Gary Hart [D-CO, 1975-1986] leaves office as Senator from Colorado

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Sen. Gary Hart [D-CO, 1975-1986] takes office as Senator from Colorado

Jan 14, 1975

Sen. Gary Hart

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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