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Rep. Tim Holden [D-PA17]
U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania’s 17^th District

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Outside Links

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Tim Holden’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Pennsylvania [map]
District:	17^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Mar 5, 1957 / 52 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 10-14-09 2:03:25 to 2:04:00 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Tim Holden has represented Pennsylvania’s 17^th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Tim Holden:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	Pennsylvania’s 17^th	(was preceeded by George Gekas)
1993-2002	U.S. Representative	Pennsylvania’s 6^th	(was preceeded by Gus Yatron)

Sponsorship Analysis

Holden is a moderate 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Tim Holden missed 234 (2%) 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 Holden in 2007-2008 was $23,750 from employees of PMA Group. Tim Holden’s net worth was between $259,019 and $640,000 in 2007, according to Holden’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Holden.

Committee Membership

Tim Holden sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Agriculture

Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Tim Holden has sponsored 82 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 80 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Holden has co-sponsored 2265 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Holden 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 Holden’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 754: Honoring the citizen-soldiers of the National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania, including the 56th Brigade Combat Team (Stryker) of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard on its return to the United States from deployment in Iraq.
	H.R. 3981: Wayne Cotton Morgan Bulletproof Vest Act of 2009
	H.R. 3121: To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor to Richard D. Winters, of Hershey, Pennsylvania, for acts of valor on June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France, while an officer in the 101st Airborne Division.
	H.R. 3316: To suspend temporarily the duty on 11-Aminoundecanoic acid.
	H.R. 819: To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of former prisoners of war who died on or before September 30, 1999, under the same eligibility conditions as apply to payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of former prisoners of war who die after that date.

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