Christopher Shays
Former
U.S. Representative from Connecticut’s 4th
District
, 1987-2008 (Republican)
Congressional Service | Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Christopher Shays: | When | Role | Representing |
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1987-2008 | U.S. Representative | Connecticut’s 4th | |
| Sponsorship Analysis |  Higher numbers mean other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Shays’s bills, while lower numbers mean Shays tends to cosponsor others’ bills.
This shows Shays’s percentile rank among Members of Congress.  | Shays
is
a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Shays tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Shays’s own bills.
For more, see congressional statistics.
 | Voting Record |  | Christopher Shays
missed 287
(2%)
of
11638 votes
between
Jan 23, 1990.
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 Shays in 2007-2008 was
$26,500 from employees of UST Inc.
Christopher Shays’s net worth was between $2,004 and $32,000 in 2007,
according to Shays’s mandated financial disclosure statements.
For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Shays.
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Bill Sponsorship & CosponsorshipChristopher Shays has sponsored
155 bills
between
Jan 3, 1991.
and
Nov 19, 2008
of which 140
haven't made it out of committee
and
3
were successfully enacted.
Shays has co-sponsored
2824
bills during the same time period.
(The count of enacted bills considers only bills
actually sponsored by Shays 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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