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Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R-TX5]
U.S. Representative, Texas’s 5th District

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State:Texas [map]
District:5th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:May 29, 1957 / 52 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“Congressman Jeb Hensarling opposes raising the debt ceiling and the defects of pay go legislation 2 4 10 2 50 PM” - Feb 4, 2010 8:21 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Jeb Hensarling has represented Texas’s 5th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Jeb Hensarling:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 5th
(was preceeded by Rep. Peter Sessions [R-TX32])

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJeb Hensarling missed 100 (2%) of 5350 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 Hensarling in 2007-2008 was $15,000 from employees of Bank of America. Jeb Hensarling’s net worth was between $1,177,024 and $2,632,000 in 2007, according to Hensarling’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Hensarling.

Committee Membership

Jeb Hensarling sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.