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Paul Coverdell
Former U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1993-2000

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Photo of Coverdell
Birthday:Jan 20, 1939

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Paul Coverdell:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2000U.S. SenatorGeorgia(Most Recent Term Began in 1999)
(was preceeded by Wyche Fowler)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordPaul Coverdell missed 54 (2%) of 2844 votes between Feb 3, 1993. and Jul 18, 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

Paul Coverdell has sponsored 106 bills between Jan 21, 1993. and Jun 30, 2000 of which 83 haven't made it out of committee and 13 were successfully enacted. Coverdell has co-sponsored 444 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Coverdell 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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