Sen. Trent Lott

Sponsorship Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Lott 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). Lott is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

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

• S. 2293 (110th): Individual Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal Act of 2007
• S. 2086 (110th): SCHIP Extension Act of 2007
• S.Res. 318 (110th): A resolution supporting the We Don’t Serve Teens campaign.
• S.Res. 313 (110th): A resolution supporting the We Don’t Serve Teens campaign.
• S. 1890 (110th): Flood Insurance Choice Act of 2007
• S.Res. 159 (110th): A resolution commending the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting on its 50th ...
• S. 1125 (110th): Freight Rail Infrastructure Capacity Expansion Act of 2007

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Voting Record

From Jan 1989 to Dec 2007, Lott missed 176 of 6,510 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2007. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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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
• Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills