Sen. David Boren

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Boren is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1994 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Boren sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 25, 1989 to Dec 1, 1994. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Boren was the primary sponsor of 8 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• S. 778 (103rd): Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act of 1993
• S. 1324 (101st): Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991
• S. 860 (100th): A bill to designate “The Stars and Stripes Forever” as the national march of the United States of America.
• S. 2820 (98th): A bill to name the Federal Building in McAlester, Oklahoma, the “Carl Albert Federal Building”.
• S. 1168 (98th): A bill to declare that the United States holds certain lands in trust for the Kaw Tribe of Oklahoma.
• S.J.Res. 240 (97th): A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate the week of January 16, 1983, through January 22, 1983, as “National Jaycee Week.”
• S.J.Res. 117 (97th): A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate the week of January 17, 1982, through January 23,1982, as “National Jaycee Week.”

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Does 8 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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 at least about half 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

Boren sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (22%) Armed Forces and National Security (18%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Education (12%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Crime and Law Enforcement (8%) Health (7%) International Affairs (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Boren recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 2543 (103rd): Forest Biodiversity and Clearcutting Prohibition Act of 1994
• S. 1824 (103rd): Legislative Reorganization Act of 1994
• S. 880 (103rd): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify …
• S. 858 (103rd): Minimum Tax Reform Act of 1993
• S. 778 (103rd): Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act of 1993
• S. 722 (103rd): Aid for Trade Act of 1993
• S. 600 (103rd): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1979 to Oct 1994, Boren missed 394 of 6,131 roll call votes, which is 6.4%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1994. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional 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
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills