Julia Carson
Former U.S. Representative from Indiana’s 7^th District , 2003-2007 (Democrat)

Birthday:

Jul 8, 1938

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Julia Carson:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2007	U.S. Representative	Indiana’s 7^th	(was preceeded by Brian Kerns)
1997-2002	U.S. Representative	Indiana’s 10^th	(was preceeded by Andrew Jacobs)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Julia Carson missed 1000 (14%) of 6987 votes between Jan 21, 1997. and Dec 13, 2007. 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 Carson in 2007-2008 was $5,000 from employees of Congressional Black Caucus PAC. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Carson.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Julia Carson has sponsored 38 bills between Jan 7, 1997. and Dec 6, 2007 of which 34 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Carson has co-sponsored 2403 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Carson 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.