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Peter Fitzgerald
Former U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1999-2004 (Republican)

Outside Links

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

Photo of Fitzgerald
Birthday:Oct 20, 1960

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Peter Fitzgerald:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1999-2004U.S. SenatorIllinois
(was preceeded by Carol Moseley Braun)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Fitzgerald is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Fitzgerald sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Fitzgerald’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordPeter Fitzgerald missed 14 (1%) of 1980 votes between Jan 8, 1999. 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

Peter Fitzgerald has sponsored 35 bills between Jan 19, 1999. and Oct 5, 2004 of which 24 haven't made it out of committee and 6 were successfully enacted. Fitzgerald has co-sponsored 295 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Fitzgerald 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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