John Sununu
Former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 2003-2009 (Republican)

Birthday:

Sep 10, 1964

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by John Sununu:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2009	U.S. Senator	New Hampshire	(was preceeded by Bob Smith)
1997-2002	U.S. Representative	New Hampshire’s 1^st	(was preceeded by William Zeliff)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

John Sununu missed 134 (2%) of 5374 votes between Jan 7, 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.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Sununu in 2007-2008 was $314,118 from employees of Club for Growth. John Sununu’s net worth was between $297,016 and $855,000 in 2007, according to Sununu’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Sununu.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Sununu has sponsored 48 bills between Jan 7, 1997. and Sep 22, 2008 of which 35 haven't made it out of committee and 9 were successfully enacted. Sununu has co-sponsored 658 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Sununu 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.