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Robert (Bud) Cramer, Jr.
Former U.S. Representative from Alabama’s 5th District , 1991-2008 (Democrat)

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Birthday:Aug 22, 1947

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Robert Cramer:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1991-2008
U.S. RepresentativeAlabama’s 5th
(was preceeded by Ronnie Flippo)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordRobert Cramer missed 326 (3%) of 11102 votes between Jan 3, 1991. and Dec 10, 2008. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Cramer in 2007-2008 was $15,000 from employees of Radiance Technologies. Robert Cramer’s net worth was between $-383,996 and $814,999 in 2007, according to Cramer’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Cramer.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Robert Cramer has sponsored 24 bills between May 1, 1991. and Sep 27, 2008 of which 23 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Cramer has co-sponsored 1382 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Cramer 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.