Floyd Haskell, former Senator for Colorado

Haskell was a senator from Colorado and was a Democrat. He served from 1973 to 1978.

Photo of Sen. Floyd Haskell [D-CO, 1973-1978]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Haskell is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1978 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 Haskell sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 1973 to Oct 15, 1978. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Haskell was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

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Does 7 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

Haskell sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (27%) Taxation (16%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Agriculture and Food (11%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) Energy (10%) Private Legislation (8%) Labor and Employment (5%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1973 to Oct 1978, Haskell missed 599 of 3,605 roll call votes, which is 16.6%. This is worse than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1973 Jan-Mar	67	4	6.0%	41^st
1973 Apr-Jun	192	27	14.1%	70^th
1973 Jul-Sep	167	18	10.8%	61^st
1973 Oct-Dec	168	26	15.5%	66^th
1974 Jan-Mar	94	1	1.1%	11^th
1974 Apr-Jun	179	4	2.2%	15^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	20	14.5%	75^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	18	13.5%	55^th
1975 Jan-Mar	118	13	11.0%	77^th
1975 Apr-Jun	141	4	2.8%	12^th
1975 Jul-Sep	170	6	3.5%	16^th
1975 Oct-Dec	182	25	13.7%	73^rd
1976 Jan-Mar	109	10	9.2%	55^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	21	8.0%	29^th
1976 Jul-Sep	315	45	14.3%	62^nd
1976 Oct-Oct	13	1	7.7%	29^th
1977 Jan-Mar	92	30	32.6%	93^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	178	40	22.5%	88^th
1977 Jul-Sep	233	17	7.3%	58^th
1977 Oct-Dec	133	18	13.5%	63^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	78	25	32.1%	92^nd
1978 Apr-Jun	119	36	30.3%	94^th
1978 Jul-Sep	237	108	45.6%	95^th
1978 Oct-Oct	86	82	95.3%	99^th

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
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

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