Sen. Harrison Schmitt

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Schmitt to other members of the Senate in the 97^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

• S.Con.Res. 130 (97th): A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the advancement ...
• S. 3006 (97th): Schmitt-Ritter Risk Analysis Research and Demonstration Act of 1982
• S. 2941 (97th): A bill to authorize funds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
• S. 2940 (97th): A bill to amend titles II and III of the Marine Protection, ...
• S. 2809 (97th): National Science and Technology Improvement Act of 1982
• S. 2721 (97th): A bill to establish criteria for determining election boundaries in developing census ...
• S. 2693 (97th): American Eagle Gold Coin Act of 1982

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Voting Record

From Jan 1977 to Dec 1982, Schmitt missed 230 of 3,157 roll call votes, which is 7.3%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1982. 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:

• 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