Sen. Paul Wellstone

Sponsorship Analysis

Wellstone was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Wellstone’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Wellstone to other members of the Senate in the 107^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

• S. 3142 (107th): State Prescription Drug Discount Act of 2002
• S. 3143 (107th): Consumer and Shareholder Protection Association Act of 2002
• S. 3009 (107th): Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002
• S. 2904 (107th): Emergency Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act of 2002
• S. 2900 (107th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service ...
• S. 2875 (107th): A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ...
• S. 2617 (107th): Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act of 2001

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Voting Record

From Jan 1991 to Oct 2002, Wellstone missed 63 of 4,096 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is better than the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 2002. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills