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Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ2]
U.S. Representative, Arizona’s 2nd District

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State:Arizona [map]
District:2nd Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jun 19, 1957 / 52 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“Trent Franks: A Special Thanksgiving Message” - Nov 19, 2009 11:11 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Trent Franks has represented Arizona’s 2nd congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Trent Franks:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeArizona’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Rep. Edward Pastor [D-AZ4])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Franks is a far-right 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordTrent Franks missed 87 (2%) of 5206 votes since Jan 7, 2003. 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 Franks in 2007-2008 was $12,000 from employees of Honeywell International. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Franks.

Committee Membership

Trent Franks sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.