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William Roth, Jr.
Former U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1971-2000 (Republican)

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Birthday:Jul 22, 1921

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by William Roth:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1971-2000U.S. SenatorDelaware(Most Recent Term Began in 1995)
(was preceeded by John Williams)
1967-1970
U.S. RepresentativeDelaware(At-Large/Unknown)
(was preceeded by Harris McDowell)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordWilliam Roth missed 114 (3%) of 4115 votes between Jan 25, 1989. 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

William Roth has sponsored 142 bills between Jan 21, 1993. and Nov 1, 2000 of which 113 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Roth has co-sponsored 202 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Roth 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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