Warren Rudman, former U.S. Senator for New Hampshire

Dates	Title / State / District
1980-1992	Senator, New Hampshire

Sponsorship Analysis

Rudman was a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Rudman’s time serving in the Senate. Rudman’s bills had a total of 56 cosponsors in the 102^nd Congress.

Use this chart to compare Rudman 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

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Voting Record

From Jan 1981 to Oct 1992, Rudman missed 135 of 4,345 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. This is better 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
1981 Jan-Mar	57	1	1.8%	37^th
1981 Apr-Jun	124	5	4.0%	60^th
1981 Jul-Sep	122	7	5.7%	66^th
1981 Oct-Dec	192	2	1.0%	5^th
1982 Feb-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1982 Apr-Jun	127	1	0.8%	13^th
1982 Jul-Sep	176	2	1.1%	26^th
1982 Oct-Dec	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Feb-Mar	54	1	1.9%	41^st
1983 Apr-Jun	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Jul-Sep	92	1	1.1%	17^th
1983 Oct-Nov	101	1	1.0%	16^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%	22^nd
1984 Oct-Oct	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	116	5	4.3%	66^th
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%	61^st
1986 Oct-Oct	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Jan-Mar	50	5	10.0%	81^st
1987 Apr-Jun	123	12	9.8%	83^rd
1987 Jul-Sep	119	11	9.2%	83^rd
1987 Oct-Dec	127	8	6.3%	75^th
1988 Jan-Mar	83	16	19.3%	92^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	136	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:

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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Warren Rudman [R-NH, 1980-1992] leaves office as Senator from New Hampshire

Oct 09, 1992

Elections and Offices

Sen. Warren Rudman [R-NH, 1980-1992] takes office as Senator from New Hampshire

Jan 01, 1980

Sen. Warren Rudman

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bills Sponsored

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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