Tuesday, May 12, 2009

WA's 09 Legislative Fun Facts

Some fun facts on WA's 09 legislative session:

•Number of Roll Call votes in the House: 887
•Number of Bills Introduced in
the Legislature: 2,584
•Number of Roll Call votes in the Senate:
847
•Number of Bills Passed by the Legislature: 599
•Number of legislators who didn’t miss any of these votes: 47
•Number of legislators who missed more
than 100 votes: 6



Sen. Lisa Brown (D‐Spokane) had the higest number of missed votes (205)
You can read the responses from some of the legislators on why they
missed votes and view the full report at WashingtonVotes.org. Thanks to Director Brandon Houskeeper and his team for compiling this report.
>WashingtonVotes.org is a free public service of Washington Policy Center, a nonpartisan independent policy research
organization with offices in Seattle and Olympia
.

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