Sen. John Warner

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Warner is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2008 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 Warner sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 7, 2003 to Dec 11, 2008. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Warner was the primary sponsor of 54 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• S. 3477 (110th): Presidential Historical Records Preservation Act of 2008
• S. 2403 (110th): An act to designate the United States courthouse located in the 700 block of East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, as the “Spottswood W. Robinson III and Robert …
• S. 2725 (110th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6892 Main Street in Gloucester, Virginia, as the “Congresswoman Jo Ann S. Davis …
• S. 2331 (110th): A bill to exclude from gross income payments from the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund to the victims of the tragic event, loss of life and limb, at …
• S. 2766 (109th): John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
• S. 2400 (108th): Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005
• S. 976 (108th): Jamestown 400th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act of 2003

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Does 54 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

Warner sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (21%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Science, Technology, Communications (11%) Education (11%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (10%) Energy (10%) Environmental Protection (9%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Warner recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 3477 (110th): Presidential Historical Records Preservation Act of 2008
• S. 3266 (110th): Immediate Steps to Conserve Gasoline Act
• S. 3147 (110th): A bill to authorize the State of Virginia to petition for authorization …
• S.Res. 577 (110th): A resolution to express the sense of the Senate regarding the use …
• S. 2725 (110th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service …
• S. 2403 (110th): An act to designate the United States courthouse located in the 700 …
• S.Con.Res. 55 (110th): A concurrent resolution commemorating the centennial anniversary of the sailing of the …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Feb 1979 to Dec 2008, Warner missed 231 of 10,946 roll call votes, which is 2.1%. This is on par with the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2008. 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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills