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Frank Murkowski
Former U.S. Senator from Alaska, 1981-2002 (Republican)

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Photo of Murkowski
Birthday:Mar 28, 1933

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Frank Murkowski:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1981-2002U.S. SenatorAlaska(Most Recent Term Began in 1999)
(was preceeded by Maurice Gravel)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordFrank Murkowski missed 237 (5%) of 4748 votes between Jan 25, 1989. and Nov 19, 2002. 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

Frank Murkowski has sponsored 230 bills between Feb 20, 1991. and Nov 14, 2002 of which 144 haven't made it out of committee and 17 were successfully enacted. Murkowski has co-sponsored 671 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Murkowski 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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