Chip Cravaack, former Representative from Minnesota's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
2011-2013	Representative	Minnesota's 8^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Cravaack was a moderate Republican follower according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Cravaack’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Cravaack to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112^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 2011 to Jan 2013, Cravaack missed 16 of 1,606 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 2013. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2011 Jan-Mar	212	1	0.5%	26^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	4	1.6%	52^nd
2011 Oct-Dec	208	1	0.5%	17^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	1	0.3%	18^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	2	1.3%	46^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	7	13.7%	81^st
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th