Paul Sarbanes
Former
U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1977-2006 (Democrat)
Congressional Service | Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Paul Sarbanes: | When | Role | Representing |
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| 1977-2006 | U.S. Senator | Maryland | (Most Recent Term Began in 2001) | 1973-1976 | U.S. Representative | Maryland’s 3rd | | 1971-1972 | U.S. Representative | Maryland’s 4th | |
| Sponsorship Analysis |  Higher numbers mean other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Sarbanes’s bills, while lower numbers mean Sarbanes tends to cosponsor others’ bills.
This shows Sarbanes’s percentile rank among Members of Congress.  | Sarbanes
is
somewhere between a leader and a follower. Sarbanes sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Sarbanes’s bills.
For more, see congressional statistics.
 | Voting Record |  | Paul Sarbanes
missed 44
(1%)
of
6068 votes
between
Jan 25, 1989.
and
Dec 9, 2006.
The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes
over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.
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Bill Sponsorship & CosponsorshipPaul Sarbanes has sponsored
147 bills
between
Jan 14, 1991.
and
Sep 29, 2006
of which 113
haven't made it out of committee
and
9
were successfully enacted.
Sarbanes has co-sponsored
1006
bills during the same time period.
(The count of enacted bills considers only bills
actually sponsored by Sarbanes 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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