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Ted Stevens
Former U.S. Senator from Alaska, 1968-2008 (Republican)

Birthday:

Nov 18, 1923

On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Ted Stevens:

When	Role	Representing
1968-2008	U.S. Senator	Alaska	(Most Recent Term Began in 2003) (was preceeded by Edward Bartlett)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Ted Stevens missed 188 (3%) 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 Stevens in 2007-2008 was $48,000 from employees of Boeing Co. Ted Stevens’s net worth was between $832,025 and $2,119,999 in 2007, according to Stevens’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Stevens.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Ted Stevens has sponsored 165 bills between Mar 25, 1992. and Nov 19, 2008 of which 90 haven't made it out of committee and 12 were successfully enacted. Stevens has co-sponsored 1003 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Stevens 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.