Robert Kerrey, former Senator from Nebraska

Dates	Title	Representing
1989-2000	Senator	Nebraska

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Kerrey to other members of the Senate in the 106^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 1989 to Dec 2000, Kerrey missed 153 of 4,115 roll call votes, which is 3.7%. This is worse than the median of 1.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2000. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jan-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	2	1.8%	75^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	5	5.2%	91^st
1991 Oct-Nov	69	59	85.5%	98^th
1992 Jan-Mar	61	38	62.3%	96^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	4	5.4%	82^nd
1992 Jul-Sep	117	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Feb-Mar	93	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Apr-Jun	99	6	6.1%	80^th
1993 Jul-Sep	109	1	0.9%	47^th
1993 Oct-Nov	94	1	1.1%	42^nd
1994 Jan-Mar	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Apr-Jun	92	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jul-Sep	136	1	0.7%	32^nd
1994 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	125	5	4.0%	76^th
1995 Apr-Jun	171	4	2.3%	71^st
1995 Jul-Sep	184	4	2.2%	70^th
1995 Oct-Dec	133	1	0.8%	57^th
1996 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	88^th
1996 Apr-Jun	122	2	1.6%	79^th
1996 Jul-Sep	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	125	1	0.8%	60^th
1997 Jul-Sep	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	35	1	2.9%	71^st
1998 Jan-Mar	52	2	3.8%	72^nd
1998 Apr-Jun	131	1	0.8%	53^rd
1998 Jul-Sep	109	1	0.9%	39^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	1	4.5%	83^rd
1999 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	111	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jul-Sep	112	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Oct-Nov	70	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Feb-Mar	51	2	3.9%	87^th
2000 Apr-Jun	120	1	0.8%	44^th
2000 Jul-Sep	89	4	4.5%	79^th
2000 Oct-Dec	38	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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Robert Kerrey [D-NE, 1989-2000] leaves office as Senator from Nebraska

Dec 15, 2000

Elections and Offices

Sen. Robert Kerrey [D-NE, 1989-2000] takes office as Senator from Nebraska

Jan 03, 1989

Sen. Robert Kerrey

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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