Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator for Colorado

Dates	Title / State / District
1987-1992	Senator, Colorado
1975-1986	Representative, Colorado's 2^nd District

Sponsorship Analysis

Wirth was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Wirth’s time serving in the Senate. Wirth’s bills had a total of 229 cosponsors in the 102^nd Congress.

Use this chart to compare Wirth to other members of the Senate in the 102^nd Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Some of Wirth’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1987 to Oct 1992, Wirth missed 114 of 1,986 roll call votes, which is 5.7%. This is worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1992. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	50	2	4.0%	53^rd
1987 Apr-Jun	123	9	7.3%	73^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	120	2	1.7%	24^th
1987 Oct-Dec	127	13	10.2%	86^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	3	3.6%	22^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	136	3	2.2%	24^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	3	2.4%	33^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	80^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	3	3.3%	84^th
1990 Jan-Mar	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Apr-Jun	95	1	1.1%	37^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	5	4.4%	85^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	5	6.8%	90^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	2	2.1%	69^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	6	8.7%	85^th
1992 Jan-Mar	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	20	27.0%	97^th
1992 Jul-Sep	117	36	30.8%	95^th
1992 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th

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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills