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Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA53]
U.S. Representative, California’s 53rd District

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State:California [map]
District:53rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Apr 13, 1944 / 65 years old

To contact Susan Davis, visit her official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Davis for more biographical and issue information.

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Susan Davis has represented California’s 53rd congressional district since 2003.

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 53rd
2001-2002
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 49th
(was preceeded by Rep. Brian Bilbray [R-CA50])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Davis 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.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Davis is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Davis’s 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

Voting RecordSusan Davis missed 91 (1%) of 6202 votes since Jan 3, 2001. 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 $13,799 from employees of Es3 Inc. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Davis.

Committee Membership

Susan Davis sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Susan Davis has sponsored 86 bills since Jan 3, 2001 of which 79 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Davis has co-sponsored 1319 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.)

Some of Davis’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3956: Servicemember Student Loan Interest Relief Act
H.Res. 811: Expressing support for designation of October 2009 as "National Principals Month".
H.Res. 408: Recognizing the vital role family readiness volunteers play in supporting service members and their families.
H.Res. 896: Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1299, with an amendment.
H.Res. 868: Honoring and recognizing the service and achievements of current and former female members of the Armed Forces.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.