Rep. David Dreier [R-CA26]
U.S. Representative, California’s 26^th District

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David Dreier’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	California [map]
District:	26^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Jul 5, 1952 / 57 years old

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On the Floor

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Congressional Service

David Dreier has represented California’s 26^th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by David Dreier:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	California’s 26^th	(was preceeded by Rep. Howard Berman [D-CA28])
1993-2002	U.S. Representative	California’s 28^th	(was preceeded by Julian Dixon)
1983-1992	U.S. Representative	California’s 33^rd	(was preceeded by Wayne Grisham)
1981-1982	U.S. Representative	California’s 35^th	(was preceeded by James Lloyd)

Sponsorship Analysis

Dreier is a moderate 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.

Dreier is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Dreier sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Dreier’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

David Dreier missed 216 (2%) of 12677 votes since Jan 23, 1990. 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 Dreier in 2007-2008 was $16,799 from employees of Herbalife International. David Dreier’s net worth was between $7,027,054 and $29,688,000 in 2007, according to Dreier’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Dreier.

Committee Membership

David Dreier sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, House Committee on Rules

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

David Dreier has sponsored 101 bills since Jan 3, 1989 of which 91 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Dreier has co-sponsored 991 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Dreier 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 Dreier’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 414: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should initiate negotiations to enter into a free trade agreement with the country of Georgia.
	H.Res. 67: Recognizing and commending the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Cornell University for the success of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, on the 5th anniversary of the Rovers' successful landing.
	H.Res. 628: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should pursue the global elimination of obstacles to the proliferation of technologies and services that science has proven are necessary to address the most pressing environmental problems of our time.
	H.R. 98: Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2009
	H.R. 99: Fair and Simple Tax Act of 2009

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