The House next meets Nov 23, 2009.

Rep. Peter (Pete) Hoekstra [R-MI2]
U.S. Representative, Michigan’s 2^nd District

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Outside Links

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Peter Hoekstra’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Michigan [map]
District:	2^nd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Oct 30, 1953 / 56 years old

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

Hoekstra’s latest tweet:

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“Recovery.gov website identifies the 83rd Mi congretional district/ stimulus jobs created there.Mi only has 15 CD. Wasteful govt spending!!!!.” (Nov 18, 2009)

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-07-09 01 4:34:30 to 4:35:45 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Peter Hoekstra has represented Michigan’s 2^nd congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Peter Hoekstra:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Representative	Michigan’s 2^nd	(was preceeded by Carl Pursell)

Sponsorship Analysis

Hoekstra is a rank-and-file 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Peter Hoekstra missed 286 (3%) of 11065 votes since Jan 5, 1993. 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 Hoekstra in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of AT&T Inc. Peter Hoekstra’s net worth was between $116,016 and $542,999 in 2007, according to Hoekstra’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Hoekstra.

Committee Membership

Peter Hoekstra sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Member, House Committee on Education and Labor

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Peter Hoekstra has sponsored 108 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 93 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Hoekstra has co-sponsored 1306 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Hoekstra 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 Hoekstra’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Con.Res. 181: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States Postal Service should issue a postage stamp commemorating Lieutenant Colonel Matt Urban and his service during World War II.
	H.R. 3741: Assuring Coverage for Americans with Pre-existing Conditions Act of 2009
	H.Res. 923: Requesting the President to transmit to the House of Representatives all documents in the possession of the President relating to the effects on foreign intelligence collection of the transfer of detainees held at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into the United States.
	H.R. 2605: Education Tax Deduction for All Act of 2009
	H.J.Res. 42: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to parental rights.

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