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Elizabeth Dole
Former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, 2003-2009 (Republican)

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Birthday:Jul 29, 1936

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Elizabeth Dole:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2009U.S. SenatorNorth Carolina
(was preceeded by Jesse Helms)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordElizabeth Dole missed 48 (2%) of 1977 votes between Jan 7, 2003. 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 Dole in 2007-2008 was $75,550 from employees of New Breed Inc. Elizabeth Dole’s net worth was between $14,624,035 and $48,218,910 in 2007, according to Dole’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Dole.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Elizabeth Dole has sponsored 53 bills between Jan 9, 2003. and Oct 2, 2008 of which 44 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Dole has co-sponsored 400 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Dole 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.