Wyche Fowler, former Senator for Georgia

Fowler was a senator from Georgia and was a Democrat. He served from 1987 to 1992.

He was previously the representative for Georgia’s 5^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1977 to 1986.

Photo of Sen. Wyche Fowler [D-GA, 1987-1992]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Fowler 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 Fowler sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 1987 to Oct 8, 1992. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Fowler was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:

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Does 7 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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Fowler sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Public Lands and Natural Resources (30%) Environmental Protection (17%) Agriculture and Food (17%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Water Resources Development (8%) Government Operations and Politics (7%) Education (6%) Economics and Public Finance (4%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Fowler recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1987 to Oct 1992, Fowler missed 55 of 1,987 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is better than 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1987 Jan-Mar	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1987 Apr-Jun	123	11	8.9%	80^th
1987 Jul-Sep	120	1	0.8%	11^th
1987 Oct-Dec	127	2	1.6%	25^th
1988 Jan-Mar	84	4	4.8%	33^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	137	5	3.6%	46^th
1988 Jul-Sep	127	4	3.1%	41^st
1988 Oct-Oct	31	4	12.9%	65^th
1989 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1989 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	55^th
1989 Jul-Sep	118	1	0.8%	49^th
1989 Oct-Nov	91	1	1.1%	53^rd
1990 Jan-Mar	48	1	2.1%	61^st
1990 Apr-Jun	95	1	1.1%	37^th
1990 Jul-Sep	114	3	2.6%	76^th
1990 Oct-Oct	69	2	2.9%	79^th
1991 Jan-Mar	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1991 Apr-Jun	74	1	1.4%	65^th
1991 Jul-Sep	96	1	1.0%	50^th
1991 Oct-Nov	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1992 Jan-Mar	61	1	1.6%	55^th
1992 Apr-Jun	74	4	5.4%	72^nd
1992 Jul-Sep	117	7	6.0%	73^rd
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:

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

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