Rudman was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Republican. He served from 1980 to 1992.
![Photo of Sen. Warren Rudman [R-NH, 1980-1992]](/static/legislator-photos/409456-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Rudman is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 1992 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Rudman sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 8, 1992. See full 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
Does 4 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
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 at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th 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...
- S. 2941 (102nd): Small Business Research and Development Enhancement Act of 1992
- S. 2870 (102nd): Legal Services Reauthorization Act of 1992
- S. 1427 (102nd): A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to authorize the ...
- S. 2449 (101st): A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to purchase ...
- S. 2291 (101st): Paperwork Reduction Reauthorization Act of 1990
- S.Res. 197 (101st): A resolution to ensure that sufficient funds are available to aid the ...
- S. 1046 (101st): Merrimack River Study Act of 1990
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.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional 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
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
