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Rep. Sanford Bishop, Jr. [D-GA2]
U.S. Representative, Georgia’s 2^nd District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Sanford Bishop’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Georgia [map]
District:	2^nd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Feb 4, 1947 / 62 years old

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Congressional Service

Sanford Bishop has represented Georgia’s 2^nd congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Sanford Bishop:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Representative	Georgia’s 2^nd	(was preceeded by Charles Hatcher)

Sponsorship Analysis

Bishop is a moderate Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Bishop is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Bishop tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Bishop’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Sanford Bishop missed 412 (4%) of 11065 votes since Jan 5, 1993. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Committee Membership

Sanford Bishop sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Appropriations

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Sanford Bishop has sponsored 50 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 44 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Bishop has co-sponsored 2436 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Bishop 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.)

Some of Bishop’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 1471: To expand the boundary of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in the State of Georgia, to redesignate the unit as a National Historical Park, and for other purposes.
	H.Res. 385: Celebrating the life of Millard Fuller, a life which provides all the evidence one needs to believe in the power of the human spirit to inspire hope and lift the burdens of poverty and despair from the shoulders of one's fellow man.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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