Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Jr.

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Bentsen to other members of the Senate in the 103^rd Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

• S. 3274 (102nd): Medicare and Medicaid Amendments Act of 1992
• S. 3230 (102nd): Treasury Forfeiture Fund Act of 1992
• S. 3122 (102nd): Gulf of Mexico Commission Act of 1992
• S. 3120 (102nd): Medicaid Technical Corrections and Clarification Act of 1992
• S. 3078 (102nd): Biomedical Research in Space Act of 1992
• S. 3054 (102nd): A bill to provide temporary duty-free treatment for certain digital processing units.
• S. 3041 (102nd): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish ...

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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