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

Rep. Robert (Rob) Andrews [D-NJ1]
U.S. Representative, New Jersey’s 1^st District

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Robert Andrews’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	New Jersey [map]
District:	1^st Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Aug 4, 1957 / 52 years old

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On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Robert Andrews has represented New Jersey’s 1^st congressional district since 1989.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Robert Andrews:

When	Role	Representing
1989-2010	U.S. Representative	New Jersey’s 1^st	(was preceeded by James Florio)

Sponsorship Analysis

Andrews 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Robert Andrews missed 731 (6%) of 11997 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 Andrews in 2007-2008 was $34,900 from employees of Okonite Co. Robert Andrews’s net worth was between $30,005 and $142,000 in 2007, according to Andrews’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Andrews.

Committee Membership

Robert Andrews sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Armed Services

Member, House Committee on the Budget

Member, House Committee on Education and Labor

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Robert Andrews has sponsored 541 bills since May 1, 1991 of which 536 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Andrews has co-sponsored 2437 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Andrews 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 Andrews’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 767: Expressing support for designation of a National Animal Rescue Day to create awareness, educate humans in the importance of adoption, and create a humane environment for any pet, including the importance of spaying and neutering of animals, and the encouragement of animal adoptions throughout the United States.
	H.Con.Res. 200: Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the freedom, security, and stability of Taiwan.
	H.Res. 887: Recognizing the World Trade Organization member, Chinese Taipei's, accession to the Government Procurement Agreement on July 15, 2009, and extending hope and good faith that this will promote its domestic economy and position in the global economy.
	H.R. 2575: Prosthetic and Custom Orthotic Parity Act of 2009
	H.R. 3345: National Guard Technician Equity Act

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