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J. Maxwell Cleland
Former U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1997-2002 (Democrat)

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Photo of Cleland
Birthday:Aug 24, 1942

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Maxwell Cleland:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2002U.S. SenatorGeorgia
(was preceeded by Samuel Nunn)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordMaxwell Cleland missed 7 (0%) of 1917 votes between Jan 22, 1997. 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

Maxwell Cleland has sponsored 77 bills between Jan 21, 1997. and Nov 14, 2002 of which 65 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Cleland has co-sponsored 570 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Cleland 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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