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Rep. James (Jim) Clyburn [D-SC6]
U.S. Representative, South Carolina’s 6^th District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

James Clyburn’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	South Carolina [map]
District:	6^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Jul 21, 1940 / 69 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-07-09 01 0:27:20 to 0:30:50 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

James Clyburn has represented South Carolina’s 6^th congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by James Clyburn:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Representative	South Carolina’s 6^th	(was preceeded by Robert Tallon)

Sponsorship Analysis

Clyburn 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

James Clyburn missed 295 (3%) 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.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

James Clyburn has sponsored 32 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 24 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Clyburn has co-sponsored 1472 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Clyburn 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 Clyburn’s most recently sponsored bills include...