Steven Symms, former Senator from Idaho

Dates	Title	Representing
1981-1992	Senator	Idaho
1973-1980	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District

Sponsorship Analysis

Symms was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Symms’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Symms to other members of the Senate in the 102^nd 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

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

S. 3364 (102nd): A bill to amend certain provisions of law relating to establishment, in ...
S.Con.Res. 139 (102nd): A concurrent resolution to authorize a correction in the enrollment of H.R. ...
S. 3159 (102nd): Progressive Endangered Species Act of 1992
S. 3077 (102nd): A bill to provide for the duty-free liquidation or reliquidation of, and ...
S. 2655 (102nd): A bill to extend until January 1, 1995, the existing suspension of ...
S.Con.Res. 110 (102nd): A concurrent resolution to authorize the construction of a monument on the ...
S. 2326 (102nd): No Net Loss of Private Lands Act

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Voting Record

From Jan 1981 to Oct 1992, Symms missed 236 of 4,343 roll call votes, which is 5.4%. This is worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	57	2	3.5%	65^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Jul-Sep	121	5	4.1%	56^th
1981 Oct-Dec	192	11	5.7%	48^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	2	2.6%	56^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	3	2.4%	39^th
1982 Jul-Sep	176	4	2.3%	40^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	4	4.7%	68^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	4	7.4%	72^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	121	8	6.6%	70^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	12	13.0%	89^th
1983 Oct-Nov	101	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	5	11.1%	78^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	14	9.7%	77^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	2	2.9%	30^th
1984 Oct-Oct	35	3	8.6%	63^rd
1985 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	61^st
1985 Apr-Jun	115	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jul-Sep	60	4	6.7%	68^th
1985 Oct-Dec	183	6	3.3%	45^th
1986 Jan-Mar	51	2	3.9%	58^th
1986 Apr-Jun	103	11	10.7%	94^th
1986 Jul-Sep	149	16	10.7%	96^th
1986 Oct-Oct	55	28	50.9%	97^th
1987 Jan-Mar	50	7	14.0%	92^nd
1987 Apr-Jun	123	3	2.4%	40^th
1987 Jul-Sep	120	3	2.5%	40^th
1987 Oct-Dec	127	7	5.5%	70^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	5	6.0%	37^th
1988 Apr-Jun	135	14	10.4%	87^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	6	4.7%	59^th
1988 Oct-Oct	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	10	13.0%	98^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	7	7.4%	95^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	3	2.6%	76^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	1	2.4%	73^rd
1991 Apr-Jun	74	4	5.4%	89^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	4	5.8%	77^th
1992 Jan-Mar	61	4	6.6%	84^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	2	2.7%	61^st
1992 Jul-Sep	117	9	7.7%	82^nd
1992 Oct-Oct	18	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
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