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Sen. Duncan “Lauch” Faircloth

Former Senator from North Carolina, Republican

Bioguide

Faircloth, a Republican, was a senator from North Carolina from 1993 to 1998.

Photo of Sen. Duncan “Lauch” Faircloth [R-NC, 1993-1998]

Analysis

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

Each dot in the chart below was a member of the Senate in 1998. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Faircloth is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Enacted Legislation

Faircloth was the primary sponsor of 2 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

Faircloth sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Economics and Public Finance (20%) Government Operations and Politics (18%) Law (13%) Labor and Employment (12%) Social Welfare (12%) Health (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Commerce (8%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1993 to Oct 1998, Faircloth missed 68 of 2,255 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is worse than the median of 1.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1998. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1993 Feb-Mar	93	1	1.1%	56^th
1993 Apr-Jun	99	3	3.0%	68^th
1993 Jul-Sep	109	2	1.8%	64^th
1993 Oct-Nov	94	2	2.1%	60^th
1994 Jan-Mar	86	3	3.5%	62^nd
1994 Apr-Jun	92	3	3.3%	77^th
1994 Jul-Sep	136	1	0.7%	30^th
1994 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	125	8	6.4%	90^th
1995 Apr-Jun	171	3	1.8%	55^th
1995 Jul-Sep	184	9	4.9%	88^th
1995 Oct-Dec	133	3	2.3%	87^th
1996 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	87^th
1996 Apr-Jun	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jul-Sep	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	81^st
1997 Apr-Jun	125	3	2.4%	81^st
1997 Jul-Sep	103	3	2.9%	80^th
1997 Oct-Nov	35	4	11.4%	94^th
1998 Jan-Mar	52	5	9.6%	92^nd
1998 Apr-Jun	131	8	6.1%	89^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills