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Spencer Abraham
Former U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1995-2000

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Photo of Abraham
Birthday:Jun 12, 1952

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Spencer Abraham:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1995-2000U.S. SenatorMichigan
(was preceeded by Donald Riegle)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordSpencer Abraham missed (0%) of 2203 votes between Jan 5, 1995. and Dec 7, 2000. 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

Spencer Abraham has sponsored 121 bills between Jan 4, 1995. and Dec 11, 2000 of which 90 haven't made it out of committee and 12 were successfully enacted. Abraham has co-sponsored 489 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Abraham 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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