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Tim Hutchinson
Former U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1997-2002 (Republican)

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Birthday:Aug 11, 1949

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Tim Hutchinson:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2002U.S. SenatorArkansas
(was preceeded by David Pryor)
1993-1996
U.S. RepresentativeArkansas’s 3rd
(was preceeded by John Hammerschmidt)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordTim Hutchinson missed 105 (2%) of 4379 votes between Jan 5, 1993. 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

Tim Hutchinson has sponsored 104 bills between Jan 5, 1993. and Nov 14, 2002 of which 89 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Hutchinson has co-sponsored 1048 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Hutchinson 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.