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Rep. Bob Etheridge [D-NC2]
U.S. Representative, North Carolina’s 2^nd District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Bob Etheridge’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	North Carolina [map]
District:	2^nd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Aug 7, 1941 / 68 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 09-17-09 1:38:50 to 1:40:05 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Bob Etheridge has represented North Carolina’s 2^nd congressional district since 1997.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Bob Etheridge:

When	Role	Representing
1997-2010	U.S. Representative	North Carolina’s 2^nd	(was preceeded by David Funderburk)

Sponsorship Analysis

Etheridge is a moderate 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Bob Etheridge missed 96 (1%) 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 Etheridge in 2007-2008 was $15,150 from employees of IntercontinentalExchange Inc. Bob Etheridge’s net worth was between $179,040 and $1,310,999 in 2007, according to Etheridge’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Etheridge.

Committee Membership

Bob Etheridge sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on the Budget

Member, House Committee on Ways and Means

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Bob Etheridge has sponsored 49 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 41 haven't made it out of committee and 6 were successfully enacted. Etheridge has co-sponsored 1369 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Etheridge 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 Etheridge’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 4136: To extend the temporary duty suspensions on certain cotton shirting fabrics, and for other purposes.
	H.Con.Res. 158: Expressing support for the designation of an Early Detection Month for breast cancer and all forms of cancer.
	H.Res. 540: Expressing condolences to the families, friends, and loved ones of the victims of the catastrophic explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, North Carolina, and for other purposes.
	H.Res. 525: Expressing condolences to the families, friends, and loved ones of the victims of the catastrophic explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, North Carolina, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 3150: To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, to provide compensation to certain poultry producers whose poultry production contracts were terminated or not renewed because of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy protection.

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