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Rep. Judy Biggert [R-IL13]
U.S. Representative, Illinois’s 13th District

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State:Illinois [map]
District:13th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Aug 15, 1937 / 72 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Judy Biggert has represented Illinois’s 13th congressional district since 1999.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Judy Biggert:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1999-2010
U.S. RepresentativeIllinois’s 13th
(was preceeded by Harris Fawell)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Biggert is a moderate Republican 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.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Biggert is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Biggert sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Biggert’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJudy Biggert missed 51 (1%) of 7416 votes since Jan 6, 1999. 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 Biggert in 2007-2008 was $17,200 from employees of Molex Inc. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Biggert.

Committee Membership

Judy Biggert sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Judy Biggert has sponsored 97 bills since Jan 6, 1999 of which 85 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Biggert has co-sponsored 958 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Biggert 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 Biggert’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 16: Supporting the goals and ideals of National Life Insurance Awareness Month.
H.Res. 779: Recognizing and supporting the goals and ideals of National Runaway Prevention Month.
H.R. 3760: Home Buyer Tax Credit Act of 2009
H.R. 3761: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the first-time homebuyer tax credit, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3828: Suspend ACORN Certification Act of 2009

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.