Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Lugar sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the Senate in 2013. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Lugar is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Lugar sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (48%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (14%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Agriculture and Food (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (6%) Energy (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of Lugar’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S.Res. 626 (112th): A resolution designating April 24, 2014, as “Jan Karski Day”.
- S. 3671 (112th): A bill to provide certain assistance to North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.
- S.Res. 588 (112th): A resolution commending the 4 American public servants who died in Benghazi, ...
- S.Res. 575 (112th): A resolution commending the 4 American public servants who died in Benghazi, ...
- S.Res. 551 (112th): A resolution commending the 4 American public servants who died in Benghazi, ...
- S. 3310 (112th): Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2012
- S.Res. 481 (112th): A resolution celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the United States-Philippines Mutual Defense ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1977 to Jan 2013, Lugar missed 230 of 13,284 roll call votes, which is 1.7%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2013. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
- 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
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills