Melissa Bean, former Representative from Illinois's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
2005-2010	Representative	Illinois's 8^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Bean to other members of the House of Representatives in the 111^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 2005 to Dec 2010, Bean missed 171 of 4,745 roll call votes, which is 3.6%. This is worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2010. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2005 Jan-Mar	90	3	3.3%	51^st
2005 Apr-Jun	272	1	0.4%	14^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	4	2.7%	61^st
2005 Oct-Dec	163	1	0.6%	17^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	1	1.2%	42^nd
2006 Apr-Jun	276	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	1	0.5%	18^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	4	1.0%	34^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	13	4.1%	75^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	37	14.1%	94^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	9	6.0%	66^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	12	3.7%	57^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	6	2.9%	55^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	6	3.4%	65^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	11	3.6%	66^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	9	3.4%	71^st
2009 Oct-Dec	246	28	11.4%	91^st
2010 Jan-Mar	195	8	4.1%	59^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	6	2.7%	46^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	2	1.3%	34^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	9	9.1%	69^th