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Rep. Nathan Deal [R-GA9]
U.S. Representative, Georgia’s 9th District

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State:Georgia [map]
District:9th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Aug 25, 1942 / 67 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Nathan Deal has represented Georgia’s 9th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Nathan Deal:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativeGeorgia’s 9th
(was preceeded by Charles Norwood)
2003-2006
U.S. RepresentativeGeorgia’s 10th
(was preceeded by Charles Norwood)
1993-2002
U.S. RepresentativeGeorgia’s 9th
(was preceeded by Edgar Jenkins)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Deal is a rank-and-file Republican 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"
Deal is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Deal sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Deal’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordNathan Deal missed 535 (5%) 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.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Deal in 2007-2008 was $14,000 from employees of Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Nathan Deal’s net worth was between $-1,499,992 and $15,049,999 in 2007, according to Deal’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Deal.

Committee Membership

Nathan Deal sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Nathan Deal has sponsored 71 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 60 haven't made it out of committee and 7 were successfully enacted. Deal has co-sponsored 1412 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Deal 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 Deal’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3821: Improved Employee Access to Health Insurance Act of 2009
H.R. 3823: Medicaid and SCHIP Beneficiary Choice Improvement Act of 2009
H.R. 3824: Expanded Health Insurance Options Act of 2009
H.R. 3822: To permit employers to provide contributions and assistance to certain employees who purchase individual health insurance.
H.R. 3704: To authorize a Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility lease in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.