Sen. Daniel Coats’s 2013 Report Card
Senior
Senator
from Indiana
Republican
Served Jan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2017
These year-end statistics cover Coats’s record during the 2013 legislative year (Jan 3, 2013-Dec 26, 2013) and compare him to other senators serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Dec 1, 2014. On Dec. 1, 2014, the statistics were updated to remove Sen. Schatz from the list of Senate sophomores. Schatz only served for several days in the preceding Congress.
A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Coats’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.
Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.
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Held the 3rd fewest committee positions compared to Serving 10+ YearsCoats held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. For comparison to other Members of Congress, we assigned a score giving five points for each full committee leadership position and one point for each subcommittee leadership position. View Coats’s Profile » Compare to all Senate Republicans (2nd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (4th percentile); All Senators (8th percentile). |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 4th least often compared to Senate RepublicansOf the 86 bills that Coats cosponsored, 24% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Senate Republicans (7th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (44th percentile); All Senators (44th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Introduced the 4th fewest bills compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 1 other)Coats introduced 6 bills and resolutions in 2013. View Bills » Compare to all Senate Republicans (13th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (5th percentile); All Senators (8th percentile). |
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Cosponsored the 7th fewest bills compared to Serving 10+ YearsCoats cosponsored 86 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all Senate Republicans (18th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (11th percentile); All Senators (14th percentile). |
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Got the 8th fewest cosponsors on their bills compared to Serving 10+ YearsCoats’s bills and resolutions had 66 cosponsors in 2013. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills » Compare to all Senate Republicans (27th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (13th percentile); All Senators (24th percentile). |
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Got bicameral support on the 11th fewest bills compared to Serving 10+ Years (tied with 4 others)The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: S. 581: A bill to amend section …; S. 1471: Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for … Compare to all Senate Republicans (27th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (18th percentile); All Senators (21st percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Laws EnactedCoats introduced 1 bill that became law in 2013. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills » Those bills were: S. 1471: Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for … Compare to all Senate Republicans (89th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (75th percentile); All Senators (86th percentile). We only count enacted bills (and joint resolutions) that the legislator was the primary sponsor of. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, such as through companion bills or incorporation into larger bills, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. |
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Bills Out of CommitteeMost bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Coats introduced 0 bills in 2013 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Compare to all Senate Republicans (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); All Senators (0th percentile). |
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Powerful Cosponsors2 of Coats’s bills and resolutions in 2013 had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward. Those bills were: S. 1471: Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for …; S. 1488: A bill to delay the … Compare to all Senate Republicans (47th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (27th percentile); All Senators (39th percentile). |
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Missed VotesCoats missed 3.1% of votes (9 of 291 votes) in 2013. View Coats’s Profile » Compare to all Serving 10+ Years (70th percentile); All Senators (70th percentile). |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Coats supported any of 8 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the Senate that we identified in this session. We gave Coats 0 points, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Compare to all Senate Republicans (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); All Senators (0th percentile). |
Additional Notes
Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.
Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).
Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.
Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of 2013) was the 113th Congress (freshmen) or 112th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
