Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Cochran has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the Senate. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Cochran is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Cochran for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Thad Cochran sits on the following committees:
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Chairman,
Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management and Trade
- Member, Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry and Natural Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Cochran sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (27%) Health (27%) Economics and Public Finance (18%) Education (9%) Transportation and Public Works (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (9%)
Recent Bills
Some of Cochran’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 3350: Clarification of Treatment of Electronic Sales of Livestock Act of 2016
- S. 3054: Preserving Civil Rights Heritage Act of 2016
- S. 3000: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2017
- S. 2177: Medgar Evers House Study Act
- S. 2129: An Act Making Appropriations to Improve the Nation’s Infrastructure and for Other Purposes, ...
- S. 2130: An Act Making Appropriations for National Security and for Other Purposes, 2016
- S. 2131: An Act Making Appropriations for Law Enforcement and for Other Purposes, 2016
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Voting Record
From Feb 1979 to Sep 2016, Cochran missed 479 of 13,275 roll call votes, which is 3.6%. This is worse than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. 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
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills