Sen. Samuel Hayakawa

Sponsorship Analysis

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

Use this chart to compare Hayakawa to other members of the Senate in the 97^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

• S.Res. 500 (97th): A resolution commending the Government of Zimbabwe.
• S.Con.Res. 131 (97th): A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress concerning Americans ...
• S. 2907 (97th): A bill for the relief of Hisato Diozake.
• S. 2855 (97th): Federal Seed Act Amendments of 1982
• S.Res. 451 (97th): A resolution regarding asylum for Hu Na.
• S. 2811 (97th): A bill to extend the restriction of water resource project construction for ...
• S. 2808 (97th): A bill to provide for the restoration of the fish and wildlife ...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1977 to Dec 1982, Hayakawa missed 327 of 3,162 roll call votes, which is 10.3%. This is worse than the median of 6.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1982. 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:

• 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