The Senate next meets Nov 30, 2009; the House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Sen. Tim Johnson [D-SD]
U.S. Senator, South Dakota

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Tim Johnson’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	South Dakota [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Dec 28, 1946 / 62 years old

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On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 11-17-09 00 0:51:40 to 0:54:40 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Tim Johnson:

When	Role	Representing
1997-2014	U.S. Senator	South Dakota	(Most Recent Term Began in 2009) (was preceeded by Larry Pressler)
1993-1996	U.S. Representative	South Dakota	(At-Large/Unknown)
1987-1992	U.S. Representative	South Dakota’s 1^st

Sponsorship Analysis

Johnson 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.

Johnson is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Johnson tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Johnson’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Tim Johnson missed 445 (5%) of 8172 votes since Jan 23, 1990. 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 Johnson in 2007-2008 was $195,770 from employees of ActBlue. Tim Johnson’s net worth was between $440,025 and $1,277,000 in 2007, according to Johnson’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Johnson.

Committee Membership

Tim Johnson sits on the following committees:

Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Chairman, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development

Member, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

Member, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

Member, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Chairman, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions

Member, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development

Member, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment

Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Member, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests

Member, Subcommittee on Water and Power

Member, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Tim Johnson has sponsored 210 bills since May 1, 1991 of which 179 haven't made it out of committee and 11 were successfully enacted. Johnson has co-sponsored 2270 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Johnson 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 Johnson’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S. 1664: A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to modify the appointment and grade of the Chief of the Army Medical Specialist Corps.
	S. 2726: Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act
	S.Res. 161: A resolution recognizing June 2009 as the first National Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiecstasia (HHT) month, established to increase awareness of HHT, which is a complex genetic blood vessel disorder that affects approximately 70,000 people in the United States.
	S. 1144: Rural Transit Improvement and Flexibility Act of 2009
	S.Res. 141: A resolution recognizing June 2009 as the first National Hemorrhagic Telangiecstasia (HHT) month, established to increase awareness of HHT, which is a complex genetic blood vessel disorder that affects approximately 70,000 people in the United States.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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