Sen. Pat Roberts

State:: Kansas
Party:: Republican

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1997-2015	Senator	Kansas
1981-1996	Representative	Kansas's 1^st District

Track Him

Official Website: http://www.roberts.senate.gov
@senpatroberts

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Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Roberts 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

Pat Roberts sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Joint Committee on the Library
Joint Committee on Printing
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodities, Markets, Trade and Risk Management
- Member, Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry and Natural Resources
Senate Committee on Finance
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
- Member, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
- Member, Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- Member, Subcommittee on Children and Families
- Member, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging
Senate Select Committee on Ethics

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1997 to May 2013, Roberts missed 127 of 5,215 roll call votes, which is 2.4%. This is worse than the median of 1.8% 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	10	8.0%	97^th
1997 Jul-Sep	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jan-Mar	52	1	1.9%	31^st
1998 Apr-Jun	131	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	3	2.8%	76^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	111	1	0.9%	47^th
1999 Jul-Sep	112	1	0.9%	47^th
1999 Oct-Nov	70	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Feb-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Apr-Jun	120	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	38	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	157	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	68	5	7.4%	82^nd
2001 Oct-Dec	92	1	1.1%	42^nd
2002 Jan-Mar	59	4	6.8%	76^th
2002 Apr-Jun	107	3	2.8%	70^th
2002 Jul-Sep	61	2	3.3%	61^st
2002 Oct-Nov	26	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	112	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	50^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	2	2.3%	73^rd
2004 Jul-Sep	42	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Oct-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jan-Mar	81	1	1.2%	56^th
2005 Apr-Jun	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jul-Sep	76	6	7.9%	87^th
2005 Oct-Dec	120	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jan-Mar	83	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	107	2	1.9%	57^th
2006 Jul-Sep	73	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	126	3	2.4%	69^th
2007 Apr-Jun	112	7	6.3%	82^nd
2007 Jul-Sep	119	3	2.5%	64^th
2007 Oct-Dec	85	1	1.2%	57^th
2008 Jan-Mar	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Apr-Jun	77	4	5.2%	75^th
2008 Jul-Sep	47	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	118	1	0.8%	57^th
2009 Apr-Jun	96	18	18.8%	97^th
2009 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Oct-Dec	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Jan-Mar	108	9	8.3%	94^th
2010 Apr-Jun	96	14	14.6%	97^th
2010 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	55^th
2010 Nov-Dec	51	1	2.0%	42^nd
2011 Jan-Mar	46	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	10	17.2%	99^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	2	4.1%	76^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	1	1.2%	41^st
2012 Jan-Mar	63	5	7.9%	92^nd
2012 Apr-Jun	109	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	1	2.0%	53^rd
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	1	1.1%	55^th
2013 Apr-May	47	0	0.0%	0^th

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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills