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

Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]
U.S. Senator, Oregon

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State:	Oregon [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	May 3, 1949 / 60 years old

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Official YouTube Feed

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On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 08-05-09 00 3:35:25 to 3:51:00 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Ron Wyden:

When	Role	Representing
1996-2010	U.S. Senator	Oregon	(Most Recent Term Began in 2005) (was preceeded by Robert Packwood)
1981-1996	U.S. Representative	Oregon’s 3^rd	(was preceeded by Robert Duncan)

Sponsorship Analysis

Wyden 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.

Wyden is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Wyden sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Wyden’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Wyden's bills without Wyden 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 Wyden’s job approval rating at 57% 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

Ron Wyden missed 111 (1%) of 8045 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 Wyden in 2007-2008 was $53,200 from employees of Nike Inc. Ron Wyden’s net worth was between $3,988,019 and $6,246,002 in 2007, according to Wyden’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Wyden.

Committee Membership

Ron Wyden sits on the following committees:

Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Chairman, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests

Member, Subcommittee on Energy

Member, Senate Committee on Finance

Chairman, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness

Member, Subcommittee on Health Care

Member, Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-term Growth

Member, Senate Committee on the Budget

Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Member, Senate Special Committee on Aging

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Ron Wyden has sponsored 269 bills since Apr 30, 1991 of which 227 haven't made it out of committee and 15 were successfully enacted. Wyden has co-sponsored 1236 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Wyden 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 Wyden’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S. 1676: Affordable Housing Preservation and Revitalization Act of 2009
	S. 1674: Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009
	S.Res. 303: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that October 17, 1984, the date of the restoration by the Federal Government of Federal recognition to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, should be memorialized.
	S. 1314: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 630 Northeast Killingsworth Avenue in Portland, Oregon, as the "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Post Office".
	S. 1145: Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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