Steve Kagen, former U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District

Dates	Title / State / District
2007-2010	Representative, Wisconsin's 8^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Kagen was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Kagen’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Kagen’s bills had a total of 143 cosponsors in the 111^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Kagen to other members of the House of Representatives 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

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Voting Record

From Jan 2007 to Dec 2010, Kagen missed 99 of 3,531 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is better than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2010. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2007 Jan-Mar	213	2	0.9%	36^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	12	3.1%	67^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	5	1.6%	39^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	4	2.7%	37^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	8	2.5%	45^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	9	4.4%	67^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	4	2.3%	50^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	12	4.0%	70^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	2	0.7%	22^nd
2009 Oct-Dec	246	11	4.5%	69^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	11	5.6%	72^nd
2010 Apr-Jun	219	2	0.9%	21^st
2010 Jul-Sep	151	15	9.9%	88^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	2	2.0%	29^th