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Henry Bonilla
Former U.S. Representative from Texas’s 23rd District , 1993-2006 (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

Photo of Bonilla
Birthday:Jan 2, 1954
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Henry Bonilla:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2006
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 23rd
(was preceeded by Albert Bustamante)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordHenry Bonilla missed 226 (3%) of 8294 votes between Jan 5, 1993. 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

Henry Bonilla has sponsored 28 bills between Jan 5, 1993. and Sep 21, 2006 of which 17 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Bonilla has co-sponsored 830 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Bonilla 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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