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Christopher (Chris) Cannon
Former U.S. Representative from Utah’s 3rd District , 1997-2009 (Republican)

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Birthday:Oct 20, 1950

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Christopher Cannon:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2009
U.S. RepresentativeUtah’s 3rd
(was preceeded by William Orton)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordChristopher Cannon missed 626 (8%) of 7703 votes between Jan 7, 1997. and Dec 10, 2008. 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 Cannon in 2007-2008 was $15,250 from employees of AT&T Inc. Christopher Cannon’s net worth was between $1,867,012 and $7,330,999 in 2007, according to Cannon’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Cannon.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Christopher Cannon has sponsored 95 bills between Jan 7, 1997. and Nov 20, 2008 of which 61 haven't made it out of committee and 17 were successfully enacted. Cannon has co-sponsored 868 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Cannon 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.