Warren Rudman, former Senator for New Hampshire

Analysis

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

Enacted Legislation

Rudman was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

S. 2941 (102nd): Small Business Research and Development Enhancement Act of 1992
S. 1046 (101st): Merrimack River Study Act of 1990
S. 1186 (98th): A bill to clear certain impediments to the licensing of the yacht Dad’s Pad for employment in the coastwise trade.
S. 881 (97th): Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if about one third or more of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Rudman sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (50%) Law (25%) Armed Forces and National Security (25%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1981 to Oct 1992, Rudman missed 137 of 4,355 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1981 Jan-Mar	57	1	1.8%	37^th
1981 Apr-Jun	125	5	4.0%	58^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	7	5.7%	63^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	193	2	1.0%	5^th
1982 Feb-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	1	0.8%	13^th
1982 Jul-Sep	177	2	1.1%	21^st
1982 Oct-Dec	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	1	1.9%	39^th
1983 Apr-Jun	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	1	1.1%	16^th
1983 Oct-Nov	103	1	1.0%	14^th
1984 Jan-Mar	45	4	8.9%	67^th
1984 Apr-Jun	144	0	0.0%	0^th
1984 Jul-Sep	68	1	1.5%	20^th
1984 Oct-Oct	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	5	4.3%	62^nd
1985 Jul-Sep	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Oct-Dec	183	5	2.7%	39^th
1986 Jan-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Apr-Jun	103	0	0.0%	0^th
1986 Jul-Sep	149	4	2.7%	59^th
1986 Oct-Oct	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	50	5	10.0%	78^th
1987 Apr-Jun	123	12	9.8%	83^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	120	12	10.0%	82^nd
1987 Oct-Dec	127	8	6.3%	73^rd
1988 Jan-Mar	84	17	20.2%	92^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	137	3	2.2%	24^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	5	3.9%	48^th
1988 Oct-Oct	31	3	9.7%	54^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	1	0.8%	49^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1990 Jan-Mar	48	1	2.1%	61^st
1990 Apr-Jun	95	1	1.1%	37^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	15	13.2%	97^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	1	1.4%	67^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jan-Mar	61	3	4.9%	77^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	45^th
1992 Jul-Sep	117	9	7.7%	82^nd
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:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
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

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Voting Record

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Sen. Warren Rudman

Analysis

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recent Bills

Voting Record

Missed Votes

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