Christopher “Kit” Bond, former Senator for Missouri

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Bond sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the Senate in 2010. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Bond is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Enacted Legislation

Bond was the primary sponsor of 25 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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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

Bond sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Foreign Trade and International Finance (25%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Armed Forces and National Security (14%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) International Affairs (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Health (8%) Labor and Employment (7%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Bond’s Vote	Vote Description
Yea	H.R. 4853 (111th): Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 Dec 15, 2010. Motion Agreed to 81/19. The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Pub.L. 111–312, H.R. 4853, 124 Stat. 3296, enacted December 17, 2010), also known as the 2010 Tax Relief Act, was passed by the United States Congress on December 16, 2010, and signed into ...
Yea	H.R. 3435 (111th): Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Program. Aug 6, 2009. Bill Passed 60/37.
Not Voting	On the Nomination PN64-6: Timothy F. Geithner, of New York, to be Secretary of the Treasury Jan 26, 2009. Nomination Confirmed 60/34.
Nay	H.R. 2095 (110th): Railroad Safety Enhancement Act of 2008 Oct 1, 2008. Motion Agreed to 74/24.
Nay	On the Nomination PN177: Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., in the Army, to be General Feb 8, 2007. Nomination Confirmed 83/14.

Missed Votes

From Jan 1987 to Dec 2010, Bond missed 304 of 8,220 roll call votes, which is 3.7%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2010. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	50	10	20.0%	92^nd
1987 Apr-Jun	123	6	4.9%	60^th
1987 Jul-Sep	120	3	2.5%	36^th
1987 Oct-Dec	127	17	13.4%	92^nd
1988 Jan-Mar	84	13	15.5%	80^th
1988 Apr-Jun	137	1	0.7%	20^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	6	4.7%	64^th
1988 Oct-Oct	31	9	29.0%	92^nd
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	1	0.8%	48^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	5	5.5%	89^th
1990 Jan-Mar	48	1	2.1%	63^rd
1990 Apr-Jun	95	4	4.2%	64^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	68^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	4	4.2%	86^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	1	1.4%	54^th
1992 Jan-Mar	61	8	13.1%	89^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	2	2.7%	79^th
1992 Jul-Sep	117	13	11.1%	93^rd
1992 Oct-Oct	18	5	27.8%	93^rd
1993 Feb-Mar	93	3	3.2%	86^th
1993 Apr-Jun	99	1	1.0%	42^nd
1993 Jul-Sep	109	4	3.7%	83^rd
1993 Oct-Nov	94	4	4.3%	83^rd
1994 Jan-Mar	86	3	3.5%	58^th
1994 Apr-Jun	92	5	5.4%	83^rd
1994 Jul-Sep	136	2	1.5%	53^rd
1994 Oct-Dec	15	5	33.3%	97^th
1995 Jan-Mar	125	5	4.0%	69^th
1995 Apr-Jun	171	9	5.3%	92^nd
1995 Jul-Sep	184	7	3.8%	85^th
1995 Oct-Dec	133	1	0.8%	51^st
1996 Jan-Mar	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Apr-Jun	122	1	0.8%	60^th
1996 Jul-Sep	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Oct-Oct	3	1	33.3%	93^rd
1997 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	78^th
1997 Apr-Jun	125	2	1.6%	71^st
1997 Jul-Sep	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jan-Mar	52	1	1.9%	37^th
1998 Apr-Jun	131	1	0.8%	47^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	1	0.9%	37^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	3	13.6%	98^th
1999 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	111	1	0.9%	38^th
1999 Jul-Sep	112	2	1.8%	64^th
1999 Oct-Nov	70	3	4.3%	80^th
2000 Feb-Mar	51	6	11.8%	95^th
2000 Apr-Jun	120	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	38	4	10.5%	75^th
2001 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	157	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	68	10	14.7%	98^th
2001 Oct-Dec	92	1	1.1%	44^th
2002 Jan-Mar	59	2	3.4%	49^th
2002 Apr-Jun	107	3	2.8%	66^th
2002 Jul-Sep	61	2	3.3%	62^nd
2002 Oct-Nov	26	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	112	3	2.7%	71^st
2003 Apr-Jun	150	2	1.3%	50^th
2003 Jul-Sep	108	2	1.9%	63^rd
2003 Oct-Nov	89	2	2.2%	66^th
2004 Jan-Mar	64	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Apr-Jun	88	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jul-Sep	42	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Oct-Dec	22	1	4.5%	62^nd
2005 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	89	1	1.1%	39^th
2005 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Oct-Dec	120	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jan-Mar	83	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	107	1	0.9%	34^th
2006 Jul-Sep	73	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	126	12	9.5%	91^st
2007 Apr-Jun	112	1	0.9%	40^th
2007 Jul-Sep	119	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Oct-Dec	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Jan-Mar	85	5	5.9%	90^th
2008 Apr-Jun	77	3	3.9%	56^th
2008 Jul-Sep	47	6	12.8%	88^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	118	2	1.7%	70^th
2009 Apr-Jun	96	3	3.1%	70^th
2009 Jul-Sep	89	10	11.2%	93^rd
2009 Oct-Dec	94	5	5.3%	87^th
2010 Jan-Mar	108	16	14.8%	95^th
2010 Apr-Jun	96	8	8.3%	88^th
2010 Jul-Sep	44	3	6.8%	89^th
2010 Nov-Dec	51	14	27.5%	95^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
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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Analysis

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

Primary Sources

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Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond

Analysis

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

Primary Sources

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