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Rep. Michael (Mike) Honda [D-CA15]
U.S. Representative, California’s 15th District

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State:California [map]
District:15th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jun 27, 1941 / 68 years old

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

Honda’s latest tweet:Blog: House Passes Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 http://bit.ly/7YdCj1.(Nov 20, 2009)
Official YouTube Feed
“Sec. Spellings admits lacks of educational credentials” - Mar 26, 2007 6:44 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Michael Honda has represented California’s 15th congressional district since 2001.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Michael Honda:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2001-2010
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 15th
(was preceeded by Tom Campbell)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordMichael Honda missed 258 (4%) of 6197 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 Honda in 2007-2008 was $13,800 from employees of Aepco Inc. Michael Honda’s net worth was between $399,013 and $1,094,999 in 2007, according to Honda’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Honda.

Committee Membership

Michael Honda sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Michael Honda has sponsored 46 bills since Jan 3, 2001 of which 45 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Honda has co-sponsored 2005 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Honda 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 Honda’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 215: Congratulating the Minority Business Development Agency on its 40th anniversary and commending its achievements in fostering the establishment and growth of minority businesses in the United States.
H.R. 3974: Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Control and Prevention Act of 2009
H.Res. 466: Recognizing World Hepatitis Awareness Month and World Hepatitis Day May 19, 2009.
H.R. 1758: Educational Opportunity and Equity Commission Act of 2009
H.Res. 267: Recognizing the cultural and historical significance of Nowruz, expressing appreciation to Iranian-Americans for their contributions to society, and wishing Iranian-Americans and the people of Iran a prosperous new year.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.