Jo Ann Davis
Former U.S. Representative from Virginia’s 1^st District , 2001-2007 (Republican)

Birthday:

Jun 29, 1950

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Jo Ann Davis:

When	Role	Representing
2001-2007	U.S. Representative	Virginia’s 1^st	(was preceeded by Herbert Bateman)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Jo Ann Davis missed 960 (22%) of 4379 votes between Jan 3, 2001. and Oct 4, 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 Davis in 2007-2008 was $5,000 from employees of Associated Builders & Contractors. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Davis.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Jo Ann Davis has sponsored 79 bills between Jan 3, 2001. and Sep 27, 2007 of which 67 haven't made it out of committee and 10 were successfully enacted. Davis has co-sponsored 963 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Davis 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.