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Ben Campbell
Former U.S. Senator from Colorado, 1993-2004 (Republican)

Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

Photo of Campbell
Birthday:Apr 13, 1933

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Ben Campbell:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2004U.S. SenatorColorado(Most Recent Term Began in 1999)
(was preceeded by Timothy Wirth)
1987-1992
U.S. RepresentativeColorado’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Michael Strang)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Campbell is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Campbell’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordBen Campbell missed 359 (6%) of 5703 votes between Jan 23, 1990. 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

Ben Campbell has sponsored 263 bills between May 1, 1991. and Oct 7, 2004 of which 149 haven't made it out of committee and 40 were successfully enacted. Campbell has co-sponsored 616 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Campbell 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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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

 
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