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Sen. Russell Feingold [D-WI]
U.S. Senator, Wisconsin

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Wisconsin [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Mar 2, 1953 / 56 years old

To contact Russell Feingold, visit his official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Feingold for more biographical and issue information.

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“STAFF MJS endorses Russ's Jobs Tax Credit proposal. http://bit.ly/l1cFm.” (Nov 20, 2009)

Official YouTube Feed

“Feingold Appears on 'Face the Nation' 10/25/09” - Oct 28, 2009 4:18 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 07-19-06 1:10:41 to 1:25:51 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Russell Feingold:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Senator	Wisconsin	(Most Recent Term Began in 2005) (was preceeded by Robert Kasten)

Sponsorship Analysis

Feingold is a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Feingold is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Feingold’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Feingold, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Feingold and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Feingold.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Feingold's bills without Feingold returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Approval Rating

SurveyUSA reports Feingold’s job approval rating at 50% as of 2007-11-20. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

Russell Feingold missed 10 (0%) of 5885 votes since Feb 3, 1993. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Feingold in 2007-2008 was $181,135 from employees of University of Wisconsin. Russell Feingold’s net worth was between $50,002 and $300,999 in 2007, according to Feingold’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Feingold.

Committee Membership

Russell Feingold sits on the following committees:

Member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Chairman, Subcommittee on African Affairs

Member, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Member, Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues

Member, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

Member, Senate Committee on the Budget

Member, Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Russell Feingold has sponsored 370 bills since Jan 21, 1993 of which 342 haven't made it out of committee and 6 were successfully enacted. Feingold has co-sponsored 1186 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Feingold and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Feingold’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S. 1686: Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts Act of 2009
	S.Res. 262: A resolution designating the month of September 2009 as "National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month" and encouraging efforts to educate the public about atrial fibrillation.
	S. 1986: Same Day Registration Act
	S. 1858: Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act
	S.Res. 321: A resolution commemorating the lives and work of Jesuit Fathers Ignacio Ellacuria, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Segundo Montes, Amando Lopez, Juan Ramon Moreno, Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, and housekeeper Julia Elba Ramos and her daughter Celina Mariset Ramos on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of their deaths on November 16, 1989, at the Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas located in San Salvador, El Salvador.

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