The House next meets Nov 23, 2009.

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. [D-IL2]
U.S. Representative, Illinois’s 2^nd District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Jesse Jackson’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Illinois [map]
District:	2^nd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Mar 11, 1965 / 44 years old

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

On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Jesse Jackson has represented Illinois’s 2^nd congressional district since 1995.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Jesse Jackson:

When	Role	Representing
1995-2010	U.S. Representative	Illinois’s 2^nd	(was preceeded by Mel Reynolds)

Sponsorship Analysis

Jackson 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Jesse Jackson missed 31 (0%) of 9081 votes since Dec 15, 1995. 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 Jackson in 2007-2008 was $17,300 from employees of Horton Group. Jesse Jackson’s net worth was between $107,010 and $381,000 in 2007, according to Jackson’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Jackson.

Committee Membership

Jesse Jackson sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Appropriations

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Jesse Jackson has sponsored 37 bills since Jan 4, 1995 of which 33 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Jackson has co-sponsored 1823 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Jackson 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 Jackson’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 3489: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit State election officials from accepting a challenge to an individual's eligibility to register to vote in an election for Federal office or to vote in an election for Federal office in a jurisdiction on the grounds that the individual resides in a household in the jurisdiction which is subject to foreclosure proceedings or that the jurisdiction was adversely affected by a hurricane or other major disaster, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 2275: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research and Awareness Act
	H.J.Res. 33: Proposing an amendment the Constitution of the United States respecting the right to a clean, safe, and sustainable environment.
	H.J.Res. 29: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right of all citizens of the United States to a public education of equal high quality.
	H.J.Res. 28: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote.

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