Ken Salazar, former U.S. Senator for Colorado

Dates	Title / State / District
2005-2009	Senator, Colorado

Sponsorship Analysis

Salazar was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Salazar’s time serving in the Senate. Salazar’s bills had a total of 12 cosponsors in the 111^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Salazar to other members of the Senate in the 111^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 Salazar’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 2005 to Jan 2009, Salazar missed 12 of 1,307 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is better than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2009. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2005 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Apr-Jun	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
2005 Oct-Dec	120	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Jan-Mar	83	1	1.2%	47^th
2006 Apr-Jun	107	11	10.3%	94^th
2006 Jul-Sep	73	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Nov-Dec	16	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	126	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	112	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jul-Sep	119	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Oct-Dec	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Jan-Mar	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Jul-Sep	47	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	5	0	0.0%	0^th

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
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills