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Rep. Dennis Cardoza [D-CA18]
U.S. Representative, California’s 18^th District

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Dennis Cardoza’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	California [map]
District:	18^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Mar 31, 1959 / 50 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 10-22-09 00 0:59:55 to 1:00:40 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Dennis Cardoza has represented California’s 18^th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Dennis Cardoza:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	California’s 18^th	(was preceeded by Gary Condit)

Sponsorship Analysis

Cardoza 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Dennis Cardoza missed 190 (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 Cardoza in 2007-2008 was $24,984 from employees of Gallo Winery. Dennis Cardoza’s net worth was between $134,007 and $410,000 in 2007, according to Cardoza’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Cardoza.

Committee Membership

Dennis Cardoza sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Agriculture

Member, House Committee on Rules

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Dennis Cardoza has sponsored 35 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 33 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Cardoza has co-sponsored 813 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Cardoza 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 Cardoza’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 760: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 324) to establish the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 3794: To amend the Central Valley Project Improvement Act to assist in efforts to avoid losses of juvenile anadromous fish.
	H.R. 3999: To direct the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to initiate consultations under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 on the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project, and for other purposes.
	H.Res. 908: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2781) to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla River in Oregon, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes.
	H.Res. 406: Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 1728) to amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer mortgage practices and provide accountability for such practices, to provide certain minimum standards for consumer mortgage loans, and for other purposes.

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