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Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL3]
U.S. Representative, Florida’s 3rd District

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State:Florida [map]
District:3rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Nov 11, 1946 / 63 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Corrine Brown has represented Florida’s 3rd congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Corrine Brown:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2010
U.S. RepresentativeFlorida’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Charles Bennett)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Brown is a rank-and-file 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordCorrine Brown missed 965 (9%) of 11065 votes since Jan 5, 1993. 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 Brown in 2007-2008 was $16,000 from employees of CSX Corp. Corrine Brown’s net worth was between $2,002 and $30,000 in 2007, according to Brown’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Brown.

Committee Membership

Corrine Brown sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Corrine Brown has sponsored 44 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 32 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Brown has co-sponsored 2604 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Brown 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 Brown’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3927: To grant the Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines.
H.Res. 367: Supporting the goals and ideals of National Train Day.
H.R. 1789: Comprehensive Rail Infrastructure Investment Act of 2009
H.R. 3111: For the relief of Walter Enrique Lara.

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.