Rep. Bob Schaffer

Sponsorship Analysis

Schaffer was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Schaffer’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Schaffer’s bills had a total of 364 cosponsors in the 107^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Schaffer to other members of the House of Representatives in the 107^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

Bills Sponsored

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

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Voting Record

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:

• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills