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Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ12]
U.S. Representative, New Jersey’s 12th District

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State:New Jersey [map]
District:12th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Oct 15, 1948 / 61 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“Holt Pays Tribute to Those Affected by Earthquake in Haiti” - Jan 27, 2010 9:38 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Rush Holt has represented New Jersey’s 12th congressional district since 1999.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Rush Holt:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1999-2010
U.S. RepresentativeNew Jersey’s 12th
(was preceeded by Michael Pappas)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Holt is a far-left 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.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Holt is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Holt’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordRush Holt missed 90 (1%) of 7560 votes since Jan 6, 1999. 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 Holt in 2007-2008 was $23,625 from employees of Princeton University. Rush Holt’s net worth was between $397,017 and $3,179,997 in 2007, according to Holt’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Holt.

Committee Membership

Rush Holt sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Rush Holt has sponsored 174 bills since Jan 6, 1999 of which 165 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Holt has co-sponsored 2085 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Holt 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 Holt’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3552: Provisional Ballot Fairness in Counting Act of 2009
H.R. 3835: Protection Against Wrongful Voter Purges Act
H.R. 4065: Foreign Language Education Partnership Program Act
H.R. 4005: Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts Act of 2009
H.R. 2368: Water Advanced Technologies for Efficient Resource Use Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.