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Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX]
U.S. Senator, Texas

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State:Texas [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jul 22, 1943 / 66 years old

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

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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Kay Hutchison:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2012U.S. SenatorTexas(Most Recent Term Began in 2007)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Hutchison is a rank-and-file Republican 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.

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

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

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

Approval Rating

Job Approval GraphicSurveyUSA reports Hutchison’s job approval rating at 58% as of 2007-06-19. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

Voting RecordKay Hutchison missed 130 (2%) of 5739 votes since Jun 15, 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 Hutchison in 2007-2008 was $113,450 from employees of Vinson & Elkins. Kay Hutchison’s net worth was between $3,037,096 and $7,608,000 in 2007, according to Hutchison’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Hutchison.

Committee Membership

Kay Hutchison sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security
Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Innovation, and Export Promotion
Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance
Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Science and Space
Member, Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Kay Hutchison has sponsored 281 bills since Jan 21, 1993 of which 226 haven't made it out of committee and 17 were successfully enacted. Hutchison has co-sponsored 1057 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Hutchison 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 Hutchison’s most recently sponsored bills include...

S. 251: Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009
S. 2597: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain sound isolating earphones with detachable cable.
S. 2589: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain women's or girls' knit-to-shape wool vests.
S. 2592: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain men's knit-to-shape-wool sweaters.
S. 2595: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on the mixtures or coprecipitates of yttrium phosphate or cerium phosphate.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.