Rep. Virginia “Ginny” Brown-Waite

Former Representative from Florida's 5^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2003-2010	Representative	Florida's 5^th District

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Sponsorship Analysis

Brown-Waite was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Brown-Waite’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Brown-Waite 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

Some of Brown-Waite’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 2003 to Dec 2010, Brown-Waite missed 496 of 5,966 roll call votes, which is 8.3%. 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
2003 Jan-Mar	94	1	1.1%	35^th
2003 Apr-Jun	239	37	15.5%	98^th
2003 Jul-Sep	193	0	0.0%	0^th
2003 Oct-Dec	151	8	5.3%	68^th
2004 Jan-Mar	104	15	14.4%	89^th
2004 Apr-Jun	221	8	3.6%	60^th
2004 Jul-Sep	161	1	0.6%	19^th
2004 Oct-Dec	58	4	6.9%	68^th
2005 Jan-Mar	90	5	5.6%	72^nd
2005 Apr-Jun	272	3	1.1%	33^rd
2005 Jul-Sep	146	4	2.7%	61^st
2005 Oct-Dec	163	65	39.9%	99^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	2	2.5%	60^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	3	1.1%	27^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	1	0.6%	28^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	1	3.7%	52^nd
2007 Jan-Mar	213	2	0.9%	36^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	15	3.8%	74^th
2007 Jul-Sep	317	15	4.7%	80^th
2007 Oct-Dec	263	4	1.5%	30^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	42	28.2%	98^th
2008 Apr-Jun	321	30	9.3%	86^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	72	35.1%	99^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	20	11.5%	93^rd
2009 Apr-Jun	303	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	4	1.5%	40^th
2009 Oct-Dec	246	12	4.9%	72^nd
2010 Jan-Mar	195	10	5.1%	68^th
2010 Apr-Jun	219	45	20.5%	96^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	8	5.3%	75^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	59	59.6%	98^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Bill Text

H.R. 1516 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 37926 Church Street in Dade City, Florida, as the “Sergeant Marcus Mathes Post Office”.

This bill’s text for status Passed Congress/Enrolled Bill (Jan 01, 2010) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 8:18 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 1516 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 37926 Church Street in Dade City, Florida, as the “Sergeant Marcus Mathes Post Office”.

This bill’s text for status Reported by Senate Committee (Nov 04, 2009) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 6:47 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 1516 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 37926 Church Street in Dade City, Florida, as the “Sergeant Marcus Mathes Post Office”.

This bill’s text for status Referred to Senate Committee (Apr 22, 2009) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 5:34 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 1516 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 37926 Church Street in Dade City, Florida, as the “Sergeant Marcus Mathes Post Office”.

This bill’s text for status Passed the House (Engrossed) (Apr 21, 2009) is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 5:31 p.m.

Bill Text

H.R. 1516 (111th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 37926 Church Street in Dade City, Florida, as the “Sergeant Marcus Mathes Post Office”.

This bill’s text is now available.

Sep 16, 2012 5:18 p.m.