John Doolittle
Former U.S. Representative from California’s 4^th District , 1993-2009 (Republican)

Birthday:

Oct 30, 1950

On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by John Doolittle:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2009	U.S. Representative	California’s 4^th	(was preceeded by Victor Fazio)
1991-1992	U.S. Representative	California’s 14^th	(was preceeded by Norman Shumway)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

John Doolittle missed 468 (4%) of 11102 votes between Jan 3, 1991. and Dec 10, 2008. 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 Doolittle in 2007-2008 was $6,000 from employees of Ose Properties. John Doolittle’s net worth was between $96,021 and $576,999 in 2007, according to Doolittle’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Doolittle.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Doolittle has sponsored 93 bills between Jan 3, 1991. and Sep 29, 2008 of which 59 haven't made it out of committee and 10 were successfully enacted. Doolittle has co-sponsored 2159 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Doolittle 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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