Cleland was a senator from Georgia and was a Democrat. He served from 1997 to 2002.
![Photo of Sen. Maxwell Cleland [D-GA, 1997-2002]](/static/legislator-photos/300152-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Cleland is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2002 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 Cleland sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 7, 1997 to Nov 20, 2002. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Cleland was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:
- S. 3077 (107th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 206 South Main Street in Glennville, Georgia, as the “Michael Lee Woodcock Post …
- S. 1184 (107th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2853 Candler Road in Decatur, Georgia, as the “Earl T. Shinhoster Post Office”.
- S. 3135 (106th): Veterans’ Oral History Project Act
- S.J.Res. 24 (106th): A joint resolution conferring status as an honorary veteran of the United States Armed Forces on Zachary Fisher
- S. 388 (106th): A bill to authorize the establishment of a disaster mitigation pilot program in the Small Business Administration.
- S. 347 (105th): An Act to designate the Federal building located at 61 Forsyth Street SW., in Atlanta, Georgia, as the “Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center.”
Does 6 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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Cleland sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (24%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Labor and Employment (11%) Commerce (10%) Families (10%) Law (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Cleland recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 3077 (107th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service …
- S. 2839 (107th): Children’s Electronic Access Safety Enhancement (CEASE) Act
- S.Res. 314 (107th): A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that a commemorative postage …
- S. 2802 (107th): Military Families Tax Fairness Act
- S. 2706 (107th): Aid to Tobacco-Dependent Communities Act of 2002
- S. 2627 (107th): A bill to protect marine species off the coast of Georgia.
- S. 2492 (107th): Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1997 to Nov 2002, Cleland missed 7 of 1,917 roll call votes, which is 0.4%. This is better than the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Nov 2002. 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.
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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
