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Pete Domenici
Former U.S. Senator from New Mexico, 1973-2009 (Republican)

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Birthday:May 7, 1932
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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Pete Domenici:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1973-2009U.S. SenatorNew Mexico(Most Recent Term Began in 2003)
(was preceeded by Clinton Anderson)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Approval Rating

Job Approval GraphicSurveyUSA reports Domenici’s job approval rating at 62% as of 2007-11-20. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

Voting RecordPete Domenici missed 300 (4%) of 6725 votes between Jan 25, 1989. 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 Domenici in 2007-2008 was $17,600 from employees of Peabody Energy. Pete Domenici’s net worth was between $-3,464,981 and $5,400,999 in 2007, according to Domenici’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Domenici.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Pete Domenici has sponsored 335 bills between Jan 14, 1991. and Nov 20, 2008 of which 237 haven't made it out of committee and 29 were successfully enacted. Domenici has co-sponsored 979 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Domenici 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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