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Rep. Allen Boyd, Jr. [D-FL2]
U.S. Representative, Florida’s 2^nd District

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Outside Links

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Allen Boyd’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Florida [map]
District:	2^nd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Jun 6, 1945 / 64 years old

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On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Allen Boyd has represented Florida’s 2^nd congressional district since 1997.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Allen Boyd:

When	Role	Representing
1997-2010	U.S. Representative	Florida’s 2^nd	(was preceeded by Douglas Peterson)

Sponsorship Analysis

Boyd is a moderate Democrat 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Allen Boyd missed 271 (3%) of 8603 votes since Jan 7, 1997. 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 Boyd in 2007-2008 was $14,000 from employees of Harris Corp. Allen Boyd’s net worth was between $2,501,017 and $12,740,999 in 2007, according to Boyd’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Boyd.

Committee Membership

Allen Boyd sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Appropriations

Member, House Committee on the Budget

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Allen Boyd has sponsored 23 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 18 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Boyd has co-sponsored 872 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Boyd 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 Boyd’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 3954: Florida National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2009
	H.R. 4022: Gulf Oyster Protection Act of 2009
	H.R. 2644: To waive the 35-mile rule to permit recognition of Gadsden Community Hospital as a critical access hospital under the Medicare Program.
	H.R. 3411: To exempt certain coastal barrier areas in Florida from limitations on Federal expenditures and financial assistance under the Coastal Barriers Resources Act, and limitations on flood insurance coverage under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968.
	H.R. 1901: To provide for a comprehensive study by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to assess the water management, needs, and conservation of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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