Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick

Former Representative from Michigan's 13^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2003-2010	Representative	Michigan's 13^th District
1997-2002	Representative	Michigan's 15^th District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Kilpatrick was a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Kilpatrick’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Kilpatrick to other members of the House of Representatives in the 111^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1997 to Dec 2010, Kilpatrick missed 695 of 9,363 roll call votes, which is 7.4%. This is worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2010. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1997 Jan-Mar	71	4	5.6%	70^th
1997 Apr-Jun	174	12	6.9%	87^th
1997 Jul-Sep	232	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Oct-Nov	163	2	1.2%	29^th
1998 Jan-Mar	89	13	14.6%	91^st
1998 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	68^th
1998 Jul-Sep	199	20	10.1%	91^st
1998 Oct-Dec	74	14	18.9%	97^th
1999 Jan-Mar	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1999 Apr-Jun	184	8	4.3%	75^th
1999 Jul-Sep	204	5	2.5%	65^th
1999 Oct-Nov	146	16	11.0%	92^nd
2000 Jan-Mar	95	7	7.4%	74^th
2000 Apr-Jun	277	17	6.1%	81^st
2000 Jul-Sep	130	16	12.3%	94^th
2000 Oct-Dec	101	13	12.9%	75^th
2001 Jan-Mar	75	0	0.0%	0^th
2001 Apr-Jun	135	6	4.4%	73^rd
2001 Jul-Sep	149	17	11.4%	95^th
2001 Oct-Dec	153	20	13.1%	95^th
2002 Jan-Mar	79	16	20.3%	97^th
2002 Apr-Jun	203	16	7.9%	86^th
2002 Jul-Sep	141	7	5.0%	72^nd
2002 Oct-Nov	61	3	4.9%	66^th
2003 Jan-Mar	94	13	13.8%	95^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	12	5.0%	78^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	4	2.1%	52^nd
2003 Oct-Dec	151	10	6.6%	74^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	6	5.8%	60^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	30	13.6%	96^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	10	6.2%	73^rd
2004 Oct-Dec	58	16	27.6%	97^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	4	4.4%	64^th
2005 Apr-Jun	272	19	7.0%	84^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	13	8.9%	87^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	14	8.6%	87^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	4	4.9%	77^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	8	2.9%	60^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	10	6.3%	84^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	3	11.1%	79^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	10	4.7%	79^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	12	3.1%	67^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	17	5.4%	83^rd
2007 Oct-Dec	263	14	5.3%	71^st
2008 Jan-Mar	149	17	11.4%	85^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	12	3.7%	57^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	20	9.8%	89^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	6	3.4%	65^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	23	7.6%	88^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	3	1.1%	30^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	5	2.0%	40^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	27	13.8%	93^rd
2010 Apr-Jun	219	41	18.7%	95^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	36	23.8%	96^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	37	37.4%	96^th