The House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Rep. John (Jimmy) Duncan, Jr. [R-TN2]
U.S. Representative, Tennessee’s 2^nd District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

John Duncan’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Tennessee [map]
District:	2^nd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Jul 21, 1947 / 62 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-16-09 0:38:30 to 0:41:15 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

John Duncan has represented Tennessee’s 2^nd congressional district since 1989.

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

When	Role	Representing
1989-2010	U.S. Representative	Tennessee’s 2^nd
1987-1988	U.S. Representative	Tennessee	(At-Large/Unknown)

Sponsorship Analysis

Duncan 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

John Duncan missed 145 (1%) of 12533 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 Duncan in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of AFLAC Inc. John Duncan’s net worth was between $412,026 and $1,230,000 in 2007, according to Duncan’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Duncan.

Committee Membership

John Duncan sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Natural Resources

Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Duncan has sponsored 146 bills since May 1, 1991 of which 126 haven't made it out of committee and 7 were successfully enacted. Duncan has co-sponsored 1610 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Duncan 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 Duncan’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 4023: To provide for cost-of-living adjustment of the resources limits under the Supplemental Security Income Program.
	H.R. 2453: To provide for a national biological data center, and for other purposes.
	H.Res. 196: Congratulating the University of Tennessee women's basketball team (the "Lady Vols") and Head Coach Pat Summitt on her 1000th victory.
	H.R. 2682: Freedom from Government Competition Act of 2009
	H.R. 402: To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the "William C. Tallent Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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