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Rep. John Boehner [R-OH8]
U.S. Representative, Ohio’s 8th District

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State:Ohio [map]
District:8th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Nov 17, 1949 / 60 years old

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

Boehner’s latest tweet:RT @C4Liberty: Ron Paul's audit amendment passes committee! http://is.gd/4ZDxL \\ More from WSJ: http://is.gd/4ZEnw.(Nov 20, 2009)
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Congressional Service

John Boehner has represented Ohio’s 8th congressional district since 1991.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by John Boehner:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1991-2010
U.S. RepresentativeOhio’s 8th
(was preceeded by Donald Lukens)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJohn Boehner missed 421 (4%) 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 Boehner in 2007-2008 was $27,600 from employees of Communicare Inc. John Boehner’s net worth was between $2,154,029 and $7,911,000 in 2007, according to Boehner’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Boehner.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Boehner has sponsored 61 bills since May 1, 1991 of which 44 haven't made it out of committee and 10 were successfully enacted. Boehner has co-sponsored 1076 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Boehner 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 Boehner’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3571: Defund ACORN Act
H.R. 2294: Keep Terrorists Out of America Act
H.Res. 401: Honoring the life and recognizing the far-reaching accomplishments of the Honorable Jack Kemp, Jr.
H.R. 2556: Preserving DC Student Scholarships Act of 2009
H.R. 3002: PATIENTS Act of 2009

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