The Senate meets today; the House next meets Nov 23, 2009.

Rep. Jo Bonner [R-AL1]
U.S. Representative, Alabama’s 1^st District

Track Jo Bonner

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Jo Bonner’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Alabama [map]
District:	1^st Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Nov 19, 1959 / 50 years old

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

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-06-09 03 2:09:30 to 2:10:35 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Jo Bonner has represented Alabama’s 1^st congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Jo Bonner:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	Alabama’s 1^st	(was preceeded by L. Callahan)

Sponsorship Analysis

Bonner is a rank-and-file 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Jo Bonner missed 230 (4%) of 5206 votes since Jan 7, 2003. 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 Bonner in 2007-2008 was $11,500 from employees of National Assn of Realtors. Jo Bonner’s net worth was between $1,208,025 and $5,862,999 in 2007, according to Bonner’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Bonner.