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Chris Chocola
Former U.S. Representative from Indiana’s 2nd District , 2003-2006 (Republican)

Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

Photo of Chocola
Birthday:Feb 24, 1962
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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Chris Chocola:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2006
U.S. RepresentativeIndiana’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Rep. Mike Pence [R-IN6])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Chocola is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Chocola’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordChris Chocola missed 22 (1%) of 2435 votes between Jan 7, 2003. and Dec 9, 2006. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Chris Chocola has sponsored 13 bills between Jan 7, 2003. and Sep 29, 2006 of which 11 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Chocola has co-sponsored 251 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Chocola 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.

 
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