Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]
U.S. Senator, Georgia

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Saxby Chambliss’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Georgia [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Nov 10, 1943 / 66 years old

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On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 02-02-10 00 2:09:45 to 2:17:05 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Saxby Chambliss:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2014	U.S. Senator	Georgia	(Most Recent Term Began in 2009) (was preceeded by Maxwell Cleland)
1995-2002	U.S. Representative	Georgia’s 8^th	(was preceeded by James Rowland)

Sponsorship Analysis

Chambliss is a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Saxby Chambliss missed 154 (2%) of 7131 votes since Jan 4, 1995. 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 Chambliss in 2007-2008 was $168,260 from employees of Club for Growth. Saxby Chambliss’s net worth was between $181,006 and $415,000 in 2007, according to Chambliss’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Chambliss.

Committee Membership

Saxby Chambliss sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services

Member, Subcommittee on Airland

Member, Subcommittee on Personnel

Member, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support

Member, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

Member, Joint Committee on Printing

Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Member, Senate Special Committee on Aging

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Saxby Chambliss has sponsored 132 bills since Jan 4, 1995 of which 117 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Chambliss has co-sponsored 1250 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Chambliss 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.)

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

	S. 2006: A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on certain acrylic synthetic staple fiber.
	S. 1997: A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Propargite.
	S. 2000: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 3-Bromo-N-[4-chloro-2-methyl-6-[(methylamino)carbonyl]phenyl]-1 H-pyrazole-5-carboxamide (Chlorantraniliprole).
	S. 2003: A bill to reduce temporarily the rate of duty on Methyl N-(2-[[1-(4-chlorophenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-yl]-oxymethyl] phenyl)-N-methoxycarbanose.
	S. 2004: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain acrylic synthetic staple fiber.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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