Rep. Neil Abercrombie [D-HI1]
U.S. Representative, Hawaii’s 1^st District

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Outside Links

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Neil Abercrombie’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Hawaii [map]
District:	1^st Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Jun 26, 1938 / 71 years old

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

Abercrombie’s latest tweet:

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“Restoring public confidence: All people deserve to feel confident that their government is working for them. Neil ... http://bit.ly/9dTtPn.” (Feb 9, 2010)

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 07-27-09 2:23:25 to 2:30:00 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Neil Abercrombie has represented Hawaii’s 1^st congressional district since 1991.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Neil Abercrombie:

When	Role	Representing
1991-2010	U.S. Representative	Hawaii’s 1^st	(was preceeded by Patricia Saiki)
1985-1986	U.S. Representative	Hawaii’s 1^st	(was preceeded by Cecil Heftel)

Sponsorship Analysis

Abercrombie 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Neil Abercrombie missed 588 (5%) of 12141 votes since Jan 3, 1991. 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 Abercrombie in 2007-2008 was $19,190 from employees of BAE Systems. Neil Abercrombie’s net worth was between $1,001 and $15,000 in 2007, according to Abercrombie’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Abercrombie.

Committee Membership

Neil Abercrombie sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Armed Services

Member, House Committee on Natural Resources

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Neil Abercrombie has sponsored 102 bills since Jan 3, 1991 of which 78 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Abercrombie has co-sponsored 3294 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Abercrombie 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 Abercrombie’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 541: Recognizing and honoring the restoration and renovation of the Bishop Museum's historic Hawaiian Hall, the Nation's premier showcase for Hawaiian culture and history, on the occasion of the Museum's 120th anniversary.
	H.R. 2573: Atomic Veterans Relief Act
	H.R. 1297: Hawai'i Capital National Heritage Area Establishment Act
	H.R. 1266: Non-Foreign AREA Act of 2009
	H.R. 1711: To express the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians, to provide a process for the reorganization of a Native Hawaiian government and the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian government, and for other purposes.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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