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Robert Weygand
Former U.S. Representative from Rhode Island’s 2nd District , 1997-2000 (Democrat)

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Birthday:May 10, 1948

Congressional Service

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2000
U.S. RepresentativeRhode Island’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Sen. John Reed [D-RI])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Weygand is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Weygand sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Weygand’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Weygand's bills without Weygand 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 Weygand missed 107 (4%) of 2401 votes between Jan 7, 1997. and Dec 15, 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

Robert Weygand has sponsored 39 bills between Jan 7, 1997. and Oct 6, 2000 of which 37 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Weygand has co-sponsored 415 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Weygand 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.