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Bob Graham
Former U.S. Senator from Florida, 1987-2004 (Democrat)

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 Graham
Birthday:Nov 9, 1936

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Bob Graham:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1987-2004U.S. SenatorFlorida(Most Recent Term Began in 1999)
(was preceeded by Paula Hawkins)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordBob Graham missed 194 (4%) of 5423 votes between Jan 25, 1989. 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

Bob Graham has sponsored 201 bills between Jan 14, 1991. and Nov 18, 2004 of which 159 haven't made it out of committee and 15 were successfully enacted. Graham has co-sponsored 678 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Graham 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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