Jon Corzine, former Senator for New Jersey

Corzine was a senator from New Jersey and was a Democrat. He served from 2001 to 2006.

Photo of Sen. Jon Corzine [D-NJ, 2001-2006]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Corzine is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2006 positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Corzine sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Corzine was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

S. 1096 (109th): Musconetcong Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

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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 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

Corzine sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (23%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Commerce (11%) Law (11%) Social Welfare (11%) Health (10%) Labor and Employment (9%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 2001 to Dec 2005, Corzine missed 171 of 1,674 roll call votes, which is 10.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2005. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2001 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	63^rd
2001 Apr-Jun	157	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Jul-Sep	68	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Oct-Dec	92	1	1.1%	45^th
2002 Jan-Mar	59	1	1.7%	34^th
2002 Apr-Jun	107	6	5.6%	90^th
2002 Jul-Sep	61	1	1.6%	45^th
2002 Oct-Nov	26	1	3.8%	78^th
2003 Jan-Mar	112	5	4.5%	85^th
2003 Apr-Jun	150	1	0.7%	37^th
2003 Jul-Sep	108	1	0.9%	44^th
2003 Oct-Nov	89	3	3.4%	75^th
2004 Jan-Mar	64	2	3.1%	78^th
2004 Apr-Jun	88	4	4.5%	82^nd
2004 Jul-Sep	42	4	9.5%	86^th
2004 Oct-Dec	22	4	18.2%	85^th
2005 Jan-Mar	81	6	7.4%	95^th
2005 Apr-Jun	89	1	1.1%	40^th
2005 Jul-Sep	76	23	30.3%	99^th
2005 Oct-Dec	120	106	88.3%	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
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

Jon Corzine is pronounced:

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Sen. Jon Corzine

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