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Thomas (Tom) Allen
Former U.S. Representative from Maine’s 1st District , 1997-2009 (Democrat)

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Birthday:Apr 16, 1945

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Thomas Allen:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2009
U.S. RepresentativeMaine’s 1st
(was preceeded by James Longley)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordThomas Allen missed 157 (2%) of 7708 votes between Jan 7, 1997. and Dec 10, 2008. 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 Allen in 2007-2008 was $57,650 from employees of Moveon.org. Thomas Allen’s net worth was between $172,013 and $1,079,999 in 2007, according to Allen’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Allen.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.