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Charles (Charlie) Bass
Former U.S. Representative from New Hampshire’s 2nd District , 1995-2006 (Republican)

Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

Photo of Bass
Birthday:Jan 8, 1952

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Charles Bass:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1995-2006
U.S. RepresentativeNew Hampshire’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Richard Swett)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Bass is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Bass’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordCharles Bass missed 91 (1%) of 7172 votes between Jan 4, 1995. and Dec 9, 2006. 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

Charles Bass has sponsored 50 bills between Jan 4, 1995. and Dec 6, 2006 of which 39 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Bass has co-sponsored 674 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Bass 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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