Sen. Scott Brown
Former Senator for Massachusetts
Brown was a senator from Massachusetts and was a Republican. He served from 2010 to 2012.
![Photo of Sen. Scott Brown [R-MA, 2010-2012]](/static/legislator-photos/412384-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Brown is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2013 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 Brown sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 4, 2007 to Jan 2, 2013. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Brown was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- S. 3662 (112th): Lieutenant Ryan Patrick Jones Post Office Designation Act
- S. 1998 (112th): DART Act
Does 2 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
Brown sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (26%) Taxation (15%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Education (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%) Health (9%) Immigration (9%) Labor and Employment (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Brown recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 3662 (112th): Lieutenant Ryan Patrick Jones Post Office Designation Act
- S. 3489 (112th): Good Neighbor Social Security Office and Community Protection Act of 2012
- S. 3490 (112th): SAVE Elders Act of 2012
- S. 3324 (112th): Housing for Families of Ill and Injured Veterans Act of 2012
- S. 3294 (112th): SAVE Elders Act of 2012
- S. 3283 (112th): Ending Housing Discrimination Against Servicemembers and Veterans Act of 2012
- S. 3273 (112th): Youth Summer Jobs Act of 2012
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Feb 2010 to Jan 2013, Brown missed 4 of 765 roll call votes, which is 0.5%. This is better than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2013. 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
- Office of Scott Brown for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
