Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Wirth sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.
Each dot in the chart below was a member of the Senate in 1992. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Wirth is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Wirth sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Environmental Protection (32%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (20%) Finance and Financial Sector (12%) Energy (10%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (10%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) International Affairs (5%) Education (4%)
Recent Bills
Some of Wirth’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 3384 (102nd): International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Choice Act of 1992
- S. 3268 (102nd): United States Fish and Wildlife Service Law Enforcement Clarification and Enhancement Act
- S. 2771 (102nd): Clear Creek County, Colorado, Public Lands Transfer Act of 1991
- S. 2754 (102nd): A bill to clarify authorities of the Secretary of Agriculture is considering ...
- S. 2606 (102nd): A bill to further clarify authorities and duties of the Secretary of ...
- S. 2506 (102nd): A bill to ensure fair treatment of Department of Energy employees during ...
- S. 2397 (102nd): Yucca House National Monument Expansion Act of 1992
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Voting Record
From Jan 1987 to Oct 1992, Wirth missed 114 of 1,987 roll call votes, which is 5.7%. This is on par with the median of 4.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1992. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills