Paul Trible Jr., former Senator from Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1988	Senator	Virginia
1977-1982	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Trible to other members of the Senate in the 100^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

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

S. 2677 (100th): A bill to establish a program of Federal grants to assist local ...
S.J.Res. 345 (100th): A joint resolution to designate October 8, 1988, as “National Day of ...
S.Res. 442 (100th): A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should ...
S. 2481 (100th): Freedom Fighter Assistance Act of 1988
S. 2297 (100th): Foreign Anti-Drug Corruption Act
S.J.Res. 294 (100th): A joint resolution designating August 9, 1988, as “National Neighborhood Crime Watch ...
S. 2247 (100th): A bill to modify restrictions on the use of certain property conveyed ...

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Voting Record

From Feb 1983 to Oct 1988, Trible missed 67 of 2,198 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is better than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Feb-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	121	1	0.8%	18^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Oct-Nov	101	7	6.9%	55^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	4	8.9%	64^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	10	6.9%	61^st
1984 Jul-Sep	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	59^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	2	1.7%	43^rd
1985 Jul-Sep	60	1	1.7%	44^th
1985 Oct-Dec	183	9	4.9%	67^th
1986 Jan-Mar	51	1	2.0%	44^th
1986 Apr-Jun	103	2	1.9%	47^th
1986 Jul-Sep	149	2	1.3%	45^th
1986 Oct-Oct	56	1	1.8%	61^st
1987 Jan-Mar	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	123	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jul-Sep	120	6	5.0%	63^rd
1987 Oct-Dec	127	2	1.6%	25^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	13	15.5%	77^th
1988 Apr-Jun	136	1	0.7%	8^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	1	0.8%	9^th
1988 Oct-Oct	31	3	9.7%	50^th

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