Sen. Evan Bayh

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Bayh is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2010 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 Bayh sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 24, 2005 to Dec 22, 2010. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

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

• S. 3036 (111th): National Alzheimer’s Project Act
• S. 2534 (110th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2650 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, as the “Julia M. …
• S. 2023 (110th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 805 Main Street in Ferdinand, Indiana, as the “Staff Sergeant David L. Nord …
• S. 1790 (108th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3210 East 10th Street in Bloomington, Indiana, as the “Francis X. McCloskey Post …
• S. 774 (107th): A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 121 West Spring Street in New Albany, Indiana, as the “Lee H. Hamilton Federal …
• S. 3164 (106th): Protecting Seniors From Fraud Act
• S. 2804 (106th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 424 South Michigan Street in South Bend, Indiana, as the “John Brademas Post …

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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

Bayh sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (20%) Health (15%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Commerce (11%) Law (10%) Taxation (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Bayh recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 4031 (111th): Rare Earths Supply-Chain Technology and Resources Transformation Act of 2010
• S. 3796 (111th): Community Health Improvement Councils Act of 2010
• S.Res. 560 (111th): A resolution recognizing the immeasurable contributions of fathers in the healthy development …
• S. 3044 (111th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend …
• S. 3036 (111th): National Alzheimer’s Project Act
• S. 3026 (111th): Fiscal Freeze Act of 2010
• S.Res. 410 (111th): A resolution supporting and recognizing the goals and ideals of “RV Centennial …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1999 to Dec 2010, Bayh missed 77 of 3,978 roll call votes, which is 1.9%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2010. 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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills