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Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO1]
U.S. Representative, Colorado’s 1st District

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State:Colorado [map]
District:1st Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jul 29, 1957 / 52 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“DeGette works to strengthen product safety” - Nov 7, 2007 3:41 PM. Watch Video.
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Diana DeGette has represented Colorado’s 1st congressional district since 1997.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Diana DeGette:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2010
U.S. RepresentativeColorado’s 1st
(was preceeded by Patricia Schroeder)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordDiana DeGette missed 386 (4%) of 8603 votes since Jan 7, 1997. 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 DeGette in 2007-2008 was $12,000 from employees of Brownstein, Hyatt et al. Diana DeGette’s net worth was between $349,021 and $987,000 in 2007, according to DeGette’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for DeGette.

Committee Membership

Diana DeGette sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Diana DeGette has sponsored 96 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 94 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. DeGette has co-sponsored 1524 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by DeGette 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 DeGette’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3668: To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the special diabetes programs for Type I diabetes and Indians under that Act.
H.R. 3727: Drinking Water Adaptation, Technology, Education, and Research (WATER) Act
H.Res. 914: Supporting the observance of National Diabetes Month.
H.R. 2252: National Health Care Quality Act
H.R. 2590: Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.