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Rep. Bob Schaffer

Former Representative from Colorado’s 4^th District, Republican

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Schaffer, a Republican, was the representative for Colorado's 4^th congressional district from 1997 to 2002.

Photo of Rep. Bob Schaffer [R-CO4, 1997-2002]

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:

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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%) Education (12%) Taxation (12%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (12%) International Affairs (10%) Commerce (9%) Transportation and Public Works (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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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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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1997 Jan-Mar	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	1	0.6%	19^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	2	0.9%	28^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	1	0.6%	14^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	1	1.1%	27^th
1998 Apr-Jun	185	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Oct-Dec	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	3	3.9%	69^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	3	1.6%	44^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	1	0.5%	22^nd
1999 Oct-Nov	146	2	1.4%	34^th
2000 Jan-Mar	95	22	23.2%	95^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	12	4.3%	69^th
2000 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	63^rd
2000 Oct-Dec	101	7	6.9%	49^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	2	2.7%	50^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	3	2.2%	46^th
2001 Jul-Sep	149	15	10.1%	93^rd
2001 Oct-Dec	153	9	5.9%	80^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	2	2.5%	49^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	24	11.8%	91^st
2002 Jul-Sep	141	32	22.7%	96^th
2002 Oct-Nov	61	5	8.2%	74^th

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