Heath Shuler, former Representative from North Carolina's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
2007-2013	Representative	North Carolina's 11^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Shuler was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Shuler’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Shuler 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 2007 to Jan 2013, Shuler missed 379 of 5,137 roll call votes, which is 7.4%. This is worse 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
2007 Jan-Mar	213	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	3	0.8%	25^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	1	0.3%	7^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	6	2.3%	39^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	3	2.0%	29^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	36	11.2%	91^st
2008 Jul-Sep	205	24	11.7%	92^nd
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	8	4.6%	80^th
2009 Apr-Jun	303	25	8.3%	91^st
2009 Jul-Sep	268	1	0.4%	10^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	9	3.7%	62^nd
2010 Jan-Mar	195	8	4.1%	61^st
2010 Apr-Jun	219	33	15.1%	96^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	8	5.3%	79^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	5	5.1%	61^st
2011 Jan-Mar	212	11	5.2%	90^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	10	3.6%	77^th
2011 Jul-Sep	247	28	11.3%	94^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	18	8.7%	88^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	26	17.2%	97^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	77	25.8%	98^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	9	5.9%	83^rd
2012 Nov-Dec	51	30	58.8%	97^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th