Russ Carnahan, former Representative from Missouri's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
2005-2013	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Carnahan to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112^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 2005 to Jan 2013, Carnahan missed 146 of 6,351 roll call votes, which is 2.3%. This is better than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2005 Jan-Mar	90	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	1	0.6%	18^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	1	1.2%	41^st
2006 Apr-Jun	276	6	2.2%	55^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	1	0.6%	29^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	3	0.8%	25^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	5	1.6%	40^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	8	3.0%	51^st
2008 Jan-Mar	149	10	6.7%	71^st
2008 Apr-Jun	321	13	4.0%	64^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	9	4.4%	67^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	3	20.0%	94^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	2	1.1%	34^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	4	1.3%	30^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	11	4.1%	80^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	2	0.8%	17^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	10	5.1%	69^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	4	1.8%	36^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	5	3.3%	65^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	1	1.0%	19^th
2011 Jan-Mar	212	8	3.8%	84^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	1	0.4%	16^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	5	2.0%	60^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	10	4.8%	74^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	10	6.6%	81^st
2012 Apr-Jun	299	3	1.0%	39^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	4	2.6%	62^nd
2012 Nov-Dec	51	6	11.8%	77^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th