Rep. Jane Harman [D-CA36]
U.S. Representative, California’s 36^th District

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Outside Links

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Jane Harman’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	California [map]
District:	36^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Jun 28, 1945 / 64 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 12-08-09 01 1:41:45 to 1:44:15 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Jane Harman has represented California’s 36^th congressional district since 2001.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Jane Harman:

When	Role	Representing
2001-2010	U.S. Representative	California’s 36^th	(was preceeded by Steven Kuykendall)
1993-1998	U.S. Representative	California’s 36^th	(was preceeded by George Brown)

Sponsorship Analysis

Harman is a rank-and-file 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Jane Harman missed 427 (7%) of 6346 votes since Jan 3, 2001. 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 Harman in 2007-2008 was $27,000 from employees of Northrop Grumman. Jane Harman’s net worth was between $236,280,153 and $558,544,002 in 2007, according to Harman’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Harman.

Committee Membership

Jane Harman sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Member, House Committee on Homeland Security

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Jane Harman has sponsored 49 bills since Jan 3, 2001 of which 43 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Harman has co-sponsored 1021 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Harman 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 Harman’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 3633: To allow the funding for the interoperable emergency communications grant program established under the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to remain available until expended through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 1786: To establish a Best-in-Class Appliances Deployment Program.
	H.R. 1732: Outdoor Lighting Efficiency Act
	H.R. 1463: To restrict United States military assistance to the Government of Pakistan.
	H.R. 2704: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to close the National Applications Office of the Department of Homeland Security.

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