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John Warner
Former U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1979-2008 (Republican)

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Birthday:Feb 18, 1927
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Congressional Service

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
1979-2008U.S. SenatorVirginia(Most Recent Term Began in 2003)
(was preceeded by William Scott)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Approval Rating

Job Approval GraphicSurveyUSA reports Warner’s job approval rating at 65% as of 2007-11-20. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

Voting RecordJohn Warner missed 157 (2%) 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 Warner in 2007-2008 was $8,000 from employees of Northrop Grumman. John Warner’s net worth was between $5,357,049 and $6,595,041 in 2007, according to Warner’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Warner.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Warner has sponsored 170 bills between Sep 11, 1991. and Sep 26, 2008 of which 103 haven't made it out of committee and 16 were successfully enacted. Warner has co-sponsored 1040 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Warner 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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