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Michael Bilirakis
Former U.S. Representative from Florida’s 9th District , 1983-2006 (Republican)

Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

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Birthday:Jul 16, 1930

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Michael Bilirakis:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1983-2006
U.S. RepresentativeFlorida’s 9th
(was preceeded by Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Bilirakis is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Bilirakis’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordMichael Bilirakis missed 330 (3%) of 9762 votes between Jan 23, 1990. and Dec 9, 2006. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Michael Bilirakis has sponsored 192 bills between Jan 3, 1989. and Sep 26, 2006 of which 171 haven't made it out of committee and 7 were successfully enacted. Bilirakis has co-sponsored 1163 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Bilirakis 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.)

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

 
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