skip to main content
Hide All The Ads With a Yearly Membership Subscribe ▶

Sen. Mary Landrieu’s 2013 Report Card

Senior Senator from Louisiana
Democrat
Served Jan 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 2015

These year-end statistics cover Landrieu’s record during the 2013 legislative year (Jan 3, 2013-Dec 26, 2013) and compare her to other senators serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Dec 1, 2014. On Dec. 1, 2014, the statistics were updated to remove Sen. Schatz from the list of Senate sophomores. Schatz only served for several days in the preceding Congress.

A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Landrieu’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.

Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.

Jump to...

 

Got the 6th most cosponsors on their bills compared to All Senators

Landrieu’s bills and resolutions had 303 cosponsors in 2013. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (93rd percentile); Senate Democrats (89th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (91st percentile); All Senators (94th percentile).

 

Ranked the 6th top leader compared to All Senators

Our unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2013 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Landrieu’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (93rd percentile); Senate Democrats (89th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (91st percentile); All Senators (94th percentile).

 

Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 11th highest % of bills compared to All Senators

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 51% of Landrieu’s 37 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2013.

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (85th percentile); Senate Democrats (84th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (85th percentile); All Senators (86th percentile).

Only Members of Congress who sponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Joined bipartisan bills the 11th most often compared to Senate Democrats

In this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 159 bills that Landrieu cosponsored, 25% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (48th percentile); Senate Democrats (79th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (47th percentile); All Senators (46th percentile).

Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
 

Got influential cosponsors the 11th least often compared to Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (tied with 8 others)

2 of Landrieu’s bills and resolutions in 2013 had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.

Those bills were: S. 1491: A bill to amend the …; S. 1571: A bill to permit the …

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (24th percentile); Senate Democrats (32nd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (27th percentile); All Senators (39th percentile).

 

Got their bills out of committee the 15th most often compared to All Senators (tied with 2 others)

Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Landrieu introduced 6 bills in 2013 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.

Those bills were: S. 289: Commercial Real Estate and Economic …; S. 311: Lower Mississippi River Area Study …; S. 415: Small Business Disaster Reform Act …; S. 511: EXCEL Act; S. 537: CLEAR SBA Act; S. 1491: A bill to amend the …

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (73rd percentile); Senate Democrats (75th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (77th percentile); All Senators (83rd percentile).

 

Was 16th most absent in votes compared to All Senators (tied with 1 other)

Landrieu missed 4.1% of votes (12 of 291 votes) in 2013. View Landrieu’s Profile »

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (78th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (80th percentile); All Senators (83rd percentile).

 

Introduced the 19th most bills compared to All Senators (tied with 1 other)

Landrieu introduced 37 bills and resolutions in 2013. View Bills »

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (73rd percentile); Senate Democrats (68th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (71st percentile); All Senators (80th percentile).

 

Laws Enacted

Landrieu introduced 0 bills that became law in 2013. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law.

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (0th percentile); Senate Democrats (0th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (0th percentile); All Senators (0th percentile).

We only count enacted bills (and joint resolutions) that the legislator was the primary sponsor of. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, such as through companion bills or incorporation into larger bills, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively.
 

Working with the House

The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 8 of Landrieu’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the House. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.

Those bills were: S. 412: Keep Our Commitment to Veterans …; S. 415: Small Business Disaster Reform Act …; S. 654: Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act …; S. 1203: Protecting Adoption and Promoting Responsible …; S. 1279: Freedom to Pray Act; S. 1326: Songwriters Tax Simplification Reauthorization Act; S. 1440: Tornado Family Safety Act of …; S. 1740: Department of Veterans Affairs Major …

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (56th percentile); Senate Democrats (60th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (57th percentile); All Senators (67th percentile).

Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service.
 

Committee Positions

Landrieu held a leadership position on 1 committee and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Landrieu’s Profile »

Compare to all Senate Democrats (62nd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (38th percentile); All Senators (64th percentile).

 

Bills Cosponsored

Landrieu cosponsored 159 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (71st percentile); Senate Democrats (64th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (71st percentile); All Senators (70th percentile).

 

Ideology Score

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2013 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Landrieu’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (41st percentile); Senate Democrats (72nd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (41st percentile); All Senators (39th percentile).

 

Government Transparency

GovTrack looked at whether Landrieu supported any of 8 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the Senate that we identified in this session. We gave Landrieu 1 point, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills.

Landrieu cosponsored S. 375: Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act

Compare to all Senate Cmte. Chairs/RkMembs (51st percentile); Senate Democrats (32nd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (48th percentile); All Senators (47th percentile).

Additional Notes

Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.

Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).

Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.

Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of 2013) was the 113th Congress (freshmen) or 112th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.