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Rep. John (Phil) Gingrey [R-GA11]
U.S. Representative, Georgia’s 11th District

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State:Georgia [map]
District:11th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jul 10, 1942 / 67 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

John Gingrey has represented Georgia’s 11th congressional district since 2003.

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeGeorgia’s 11th
(was preceeded by Rep. John Linder [R-GA7])

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJohn Gingrey missed 138 (3%) 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 Gingrey in 2007-2008 was $18,100 from employees of AFLAC Inc. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Gingrey.

Committee Membership

John Gingrey sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Gingrey has sponsored 47 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 38 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Gingrey has co-sponsored 772 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Gingrey 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 Gingrey’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 733: Expressing condolences to the people and Government of Taiwan in the aftermath of the devastating typhoon that struck the central and southern regions of the island on August 8, 2009.
H.Con.Res. 203: Honoring the life and work of Furman Bisher.
H.R. 3700: 10 Prescriptions for a Healthy America Act
H.R. 4138: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an update under the Medicare physician fee schedule, to be fully paid for through medical liability reform, a pathway for biosimilar biological products, and other means.
H.Res. 225: Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that general appropriations for military construction and veterans' affairs be considered as stand-alone measures.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.