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John Breaux
Former U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1987-2004 (Democrat)

Photo of Breaux
Birthday:Mar 1, 1944

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by John Breaux:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1987-2004U.S. SenatorLouisiana(Most Recent Term Began in 1999)
(was preceeded by Russell Long)
1971-1986
U.S. RepresentativeLouisiana’s 7th
(was preceeded by Edwin Edwards)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Breaux is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Breaux tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Breaux’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJohn Breaux missed 99 (2%) of 5423 votes between Jan 25, 1989. and Dec 8, 2004. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.