Rep. Bob Schaffer

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Schaffer sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the House of Representatives in 2002. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Schaffer is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Enacted Legislation

Schaffer was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 5308 (107th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 South Howes Street in Fort Collins, Colorado, as the “Barney Apodaca Post Office”.
• H.R. 4389 (106th): To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain water distribution facilities to the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
• H.R. 4501 (105th): To require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to improve the access for persons with disabilities to outdoor recreational ...

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if about one third or more of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Schaffer sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (22%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Taxation (12%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) Education (12%) International Affairs (10%) Commerce (9%) Transportation and Public Works (7%)

Recent Bills

Some of Schaffer’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.Con.Res. 497 (107th): Supporting the goals and ideas of National Take Your Kids to Vote ...
• H.Con.Res. 457 (107th): Honoring Rick Lee Schwartz and Milt Stollak, who died in a plane ...
• H.R. 5308 (107th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at ...
• H.R. 5232 (107th): To provide a cost-sharing requirement for the construction of the Arkansas Valley ...
• H.R. 5192 (107th): Education Freedom Act
• H.R. 5193 (107th): Back to School Tax Relief Act of 2002
• H.R. 3953 (107th): To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to ...

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1997 to Nov 2002, Schaffer missed 151 of 3,397 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills