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Wayne Allard
Former U.S. Senator from Colorado, 1997-2009 (Republican)

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Birthday:Dec 2, 1943
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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Wayne Allard:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2009U.S. SenatorColorado(Most Recent Term Began in 2003)
(was preceeded by George Brown)
1991-1996
U.S. RepresentativeColorado’s 4th
(was preceeded by George Brown)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Allard is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Allard sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Allard’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Allard, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Allard and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Allard.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Allard's bills without Allard returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Voting RecordWayne Allard missed 98 (1%) of 7288 votes between Jan 3, 1991. and Dec 11, 2008. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Allard in 2007-2008 was $8,000 from employees of First American Corp. Wayne Allard’s net worth was between $-17,993 and $932,998 in 2007, according to Allard’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Allard.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Wayne Allard has sponsored 194 bills between Jan 3, 1991. and Jul 31, 2008 of which 154 haven't made it out of committee and 19 were successfully enacted. Allard has co-sponsored 1200 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Allard and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

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