Sen. John Breaux

Former Senator from Louisiana

Elected Positions

Dates	Title / State / District
1987-2004	Senator, Louisiana
1971-1986	Representative, Louisiana's 7^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Breaux was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Breaux’s time serving in the Senate. Breaux’s bills had a total of 81 cosponsors in the 108^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Breaux to other members of the Senate in the 108^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1987 to Dec 2004, Breaux missed 122 of 6,221 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2004. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	50	1	2.0%	44^th
1987 Apr-Jun	123	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jul-Sep	120	1	0.8%	15^th
1987 Oct-Dec	127	0	0.0%	0^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	6	7.1%	53^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	136	8	5.9%	79^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	4	3.1%	47^th
1988 Oct-Oct	31	3	9.7%	59^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	2	1.7%	62^nd
1989 Oct-Nov	91	1	1.1%	56^th
1990 Jan-Mar	48	1	2.1%	59^th
1990 Apr-Jun	95	2	2.1%	60^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	1	1.4%	68^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	71^st
1991 Jul-Sep	96	1	1.0%	54^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	11	15.9%	95^th
1992 Jan-Mar	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	59^th
1992 Jul-Sep	117	6	5.1%	76^th
1992 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1993 Feb-Mar	93	1	1.1%	59^th
1993 Apr-Jun	99	5	5.1%	78^th
1993 Jul-Sep	109	3	2.8%	75^th
1993 Oct-Nov	94	0	0.0%	0^th
1994 Jan-Mar	86	9	10.5%	88^th
1994 Apr-Jun	92	1	1.1%	36^th
1994 Jul-Sep	136	5	3.7%	73^rd
1994 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	125	1	0.8%	44^th
1995 Apr-Jun	171	1	0.6%	23^rd
1995 Jul-Sep	184	3	1.6%	61^st
1995 Oct-Dec	133	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jan-Mar	60	1	1.7%	59^th
1996 Apr-Jun	122	1	0.8%	62^nd
1996 Jul-Sep	121	1	0.8%	67^th
1996 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	79^th
1997 Apr-Jun	125	1	0.8%	57^th
1997 Jul-Sep	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jan-Mar	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Apr-Jun	131	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	1	0.9%	37^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	111	2	1.8%	61^st
1999 Jul-Sep	112	6	5.4%	91^st
1999 Oct-Nov	70	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Feb-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Apr-Jun	120	3	2.5%	71^st
2000 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2000 Oct-Dec	38	1	2.6%	41^st
2001 Jan-Mar	63	3	4.8%	91^st
2001 Apr-Jun	157	1	0.6%	51^st
2001 Jul-Sep	68	3	4.4%	71^st
2001 Oct-Dec	92	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Jan-Mar	59	2	3.4%	49^th
2002 Apr-Jun	107	1	0.9%	38^th
2002 Jul-Sep	61	0	0.0%	0^th
2002 Oct-Nov	26	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Jan-Mar	112	1	0.9%	45^th
2003 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	35^th
2003 Jul-Sep	108	4	3.7%	76^th
2003 Oct-Nov	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Jan-Mar	64	2	3.1%	74^th
2004 Apr-Jun	88	2	2.3%	63^rd
2004 Jul-Sep	42	0	0.0%	0^th
2004 Oct-Dec	22	5	22.7%	83^rd

Primary Sources

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

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Breaux [D-LA, 1987-2004] leaves office as Senator from Louisiana

Dec 09, 2004

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Breaux [D-LA, 1987-2004] takes office as Senator from Louisiana

Jan 06, 1987

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Breaux [D-LA, 1987-2004] leaves office as Representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district

Oct 18, 1986

Elections and Offices

Sen. John Breaux [D-LA, 1987-2004] takes office as Representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district

Jan 21, 1971