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Charles (Chuck) Hagel
Former U.S. Senator from Nebraska, 1997-2008 (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 Hagel
Birthday:Oct 4, 1946

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Charles Hagel:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2008U.S. SenatorNebraska(Most Recent Term Began in 2003)
(was preceeded by James Exon)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordCharles Hagel missed 99 (3%) of 3894 votes between Jan 22, 1997. 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.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Charles Hagel has sponsored 104 bills between Jan 7, 1997. and Sep 26, 2008 of which 88 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Hagel has co-sponsored 1059 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Hagel 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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