Sen. Bob Corker
Former Senator for Tennessee
pronounced bob // KAWR-ker
Corker was a senator from Tennessee and was a Republican. He served from 2007 to 2018.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2018 Report Card for Corker.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Corker is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2019 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 legislators sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2013 to Jan 2, 2019. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Corker was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S. 1862 (115th): Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017
- S. 3476 (115th): PEPFAR Extension Act of 2018
- S. 2286 (115th): Nick Castle Peace Corps Reform Act of 2018
- S. 371 (115th): Department of State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017, Improvements Act
- S. 1848 (115th): Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017
- S. 722 (115th): Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017
- S. 8 (114th): A bill to provide for the approval of the Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Kingdom …
Does 13 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
Corker sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (90%) Armed Forces and National Security (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Corker recently introduced the following legislation:
- S.J.Res. 69 (115th): A joint resolution supporting a Diplomatic Solution in Yemen and Condemning the …
- S. 3476 (115th): PEPFAR Extension Act of 2018
- S. 3248 (115th): Turkey International Financial Institutions Act
- S. 3013 (115th): A bill to amend the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to require …
- S.J.Res. 59 (115th): Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2018
- S. 2551 (115th): Food for Peace Modernization Act
- S. 2463 (115th): BUILD Act of 2018
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Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2007 to Dec 2018, Corker missed 79 of 3,597 roll call votes, which is 2.2%. This is on par with the median of 1.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2018. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills