Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R-NJ11]
U.S. Representative, New Jersey’s 11^th District

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Rodney Frelinghuysen’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	New Jersey [map]
District:	11^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Apr 29, 1946 / 63 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 12-16-09 03 0:24:30 to 0:26:20 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Rodney Frelinghuysen has represented New Jersey’s 11^th congressional district since 1995.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Rodney Frelinghuysen:

When	Role	Representing
1995-2010	U.S. Representative	New Jersey’s 11^th	(was preceeded by Dean Gallo)

Sponsorship Analysis

Frelinghuysen 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Rodney Frelinghuysen missed 117 (1%) of 10087 votes since Jan 4, 1995. 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 Frelinghuysen in 2007-2008 was $27,100 from employees of Finmeccanica SpA. Rodney Frelinghuysen’s net worth was between $22,414,184 and $72,286,000 in 2007, according to Frelinghuysen’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Frelinghuysen.

Committee Membership

Rodney Frelinghuysen sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Appropriations

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Rodney Frelinghuysen has sponsored 104 bills since Jan 4, 1995 of which 95 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Frelinghuysen has co-sponsored 706 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Frelinghuysen 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 Frelinghuysen’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Con.Res. 90: Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the removal from the United States of aliens charged under State law with aggravated felonies.
	H.R. 1823: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve communication between the Secretary of Homeland Security and State and local law enforcement officials regarding the treatment of aliens who have been ordered removed and also charged with an aggravated felony under State law.
	H.Res. 261: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Veterans Affairs should not retreat from its responsibility to support those veterans with combat wounds or service-connected disabilities.
	H.Con.Res. 70: Expressing support for the District of Columbia school scholarship program.
	H.R. 119: To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.

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