Sen. Jefferson “Jeff” Sessions

State:: Alabama
Party:: Republican

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1997-2015	Senator	Alabama

Track Him

Official Website: http://www.sessions.senate.gov
@SenatorSessions

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Sponsorship Analysis

Sessions is a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

Use this chart to compare Sessions 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

Jefferson “Jeff” Sessions sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, Senate Committee on the Budget
Senate Committee on Armed Services
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
- Member, Subcommittee on Airland
- Member, Subcommittee on SeaPower
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
- Member, Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Member, Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and the Courts
- Member, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
- Member, Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1997 to May 2013, Sessions missed 110 of 5,204 roll call votes, which is 2.1%. 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
1997 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	125	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jul-Sep	103	2	1.9%	72^nd
1997 Oct-Nov	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jan-Mar	52	2	3.8%	48^th
1998 Apr-Jun	131	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	6	5.5%	90^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	81	2	2.5%	77^th
1999 Apr-Jun	111	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jul-Sep	112	3	2.7%	77^th
1999 Oct-Nov	70	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Feb-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Apr-Jun	120	1	0.8%	37^th
2000 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	38	2	5.3%	53^rd
2001 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	157	3	1.9%	79^th
2001 Jul-Sep	68	7	10.3%	85^th
2001 Oct-Dec	92	4	4.3%	91^st
2002 Jan-Mar	59	5	8.5%	82^nd
2002 Apr-Jun	107	2	1.9%	52^nd
2002 Jul-Sep	61	3	4.9%	79^th
2002 Oct-Nov	26	2	7.7%	85^th
2003 Jan-Mar	112	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	38^th
2003 Jul-Sep	108	1	0.9%	43^rd
2003 Oct-Nov	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jan-Mar	64	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Apr-Jun	88	1	1.1%	43^rd
2004 Jul-Sep	42	7	16.7%	95^th
2004 Oct-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	89	1	1.1%	44^th
2005 Jul-Sep	76	2	2.6%	64^th
2005 Oct-Dec	120	3	2.5%	62^nd
2006 Jan-Mar	83	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	107	1	0.9%	35^th
2006 Jul-Sep	73	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	126	4	3.2%	82^nd
2007 Apr-Jun	112	4	3.6%	75^th
2007 Jul-Sep	119	1	0.8%	25^th
2007 Oct-Dec	85	4	4.7%	86^th
2008 Jan-Mar	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Jul-Sep	47	1	2.1%	35^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	118	12	10.2%	97^th
2009 Apr-Jun	96	6	6.3%	87^th
2009 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Oct-Dec	94	2	2.1%	68^th
2010 Jan-Mar	108	2	1.9%	61^st
2010 Apr-Jun	96	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Jul-Sep	44	2	4.5%	81^st
2010 Nov-Dec	51	2	3.9%	74^th
2011 Jan-Mar	46	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	6	7.3%	94^th
2012 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	80^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	0	0.0%	0^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	1	1.1%	55^th
2013 Apr-May	36	0	0.0%	0^th