Rep. Richard Baker

Former Representative from Louisiana's 6^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1987-2008	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District

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Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Baker to other members of the House of Representatives in the 110^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 1987 to Jan 2008, Baker missed 690 of 12,280 roll call votes, which is 5.6%. This is worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2008. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	39	12	30.8%	96^th
1987 Apr-Jun	186	4	2.2%	39^th
1987 Jul-Sep	94	6	6.4%	75^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	12	7.2%	61^st
1988 Feb-Mar	48	16	33.3%	99^th
1988 Apr-Jun	161	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jul-Sep	152	9	5.9%	72^nd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	5	5.6%	62^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	14	1	7.1%	52^nd
1989 Apr-Jun	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	128	2	1.6%	38^th
1989 Oct-Nov	121	12	9.9%	86^th
1990 Jan-Mar	60	3	5.0%	76^th
1990 Apr-Jun	150	4	2.7%	49^th
1990 Jul-Sep	183	29	15.8%	96^th
1990 Oct-Oct	143	12	8.4%	83^rd
1991 Jan-Mar	62	2	3.2%	56^th
1991 Apr-Jun	139	9	6.5%	82^nd
1991 Jul-Sep	81	3	3.7%	50^th
1991 Oct-Nov	162	13	8.0%	88^th
1992 Jan-Mar	66	8	12.1%	88^th
1992 Apr-Jun	185	5	2.7%	49^th
1992 Jul-Sep	196	10	5.1%	74^th
1992 Oct-Oct	41	11	26.8%	95^th
1993 Jan-Mar	127	4	3.1%	59^th
1993 Apr-Jun	190	6	3.2%	57^th
1993 Jul-Sep	164	11	6.7%	89^th
1993 Oct-Nov	134	6	4.5%	78^th
1994 Jan-Mar	95	5	5.3%	74^th
1994 Apr-Jun	219	7	3.2%	65^th
1994 Jul-Sep	142	18	12.7%	90^th
1994 Oct-Nov	51	7	13.7%	92^nd
1995 Jan-Mar	279	1	0.4%	20^th
1995 Apr-Jun	189	9	4.8%	79^th
1995 Jul-Sep	232	21	9.1%	94^th
1995 Oct-Dec	185	20	10.8%	94^th
1996 Jan-Mar	110	12	10.9%	92^nd
1996 Apr-Jun	182	11	6.0%	83^rd
1996 Jul-Sep	163	9	5.5%	82^nd
1997 Jan-Mar	71	2	2.8%	57^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	6	3.4%	67^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	15	6.5%	87^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	12	7.4%	87^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	26^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	10	5.4%	78^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	19	9.5%	89^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	8	4.3%	76^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	16	7.8%	89^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	5	3.4%	60^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	1	1.1%	23^rd
2000 Apr-Jun	277	12	4.3%	71^st
2000 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	62^nd
2000 Oct-Dec	101	8	7.9%	54^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	7	5.2%	77^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	2	1.3%	38^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	16	10.5%	92^nd
2002 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	13	6.4%	79^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	2	1.4%	36^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	9	14.8%	91^st
2003 Jan-Mar	94	4	4.3%	71^st
2003 Apr-Jun	239	10	4.2%	70^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	6	3.1%	64^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	5	3.3%	52^nd
2004 Jan-Mar	104	2	1.9%	31^st
2004 Apr-Jun	221	13	5.9%	77^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	16	9.9%	85^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	2	3.4%	56^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	4	4.4%	64^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	8	2.9%	57^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	18	12.3%	94^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	6	3.7%	61^st
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	14	5.1%	80^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	5	3.1%	64^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	15	55.6%	97^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	1	0.5%	17^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	14	3.6%	69^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	11	3.5%	66^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	7	2.7%	45^th
2008 Jan-Mar	28	26	92.9%	100^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Richard Baker [R-LA6, 1987-2008] leaves office as Representative for Louisiana's 6th congressional district

Feb 02, 2008

Elections and Offices

Rep. Richard Baker [R-LA6, 1987-2008] takes office as Representative for Louisiana's 6th congressional district

Jan 06, 1987