The House next meets Nov 23, 2009.

William Jefferson
Former U.S. Representative from Louisiana’s 2^nd District , 1991-2008 (Democrat)

Birthday:

Mar 14, 1947

On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by William Jefferson:

When	Role	Representing
1991-2008	U.S. Representative	Louisiana’s 2^nd	(was preceeded by Corinne Boggs)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

William Jefferson missed 1199 (11%) of 11102 votes between Jan 3, 1991. and Dec 10, 2008. 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 Jefferson in 2007-2008 was $15,000 from employees of Congressional Black Caucus PAC. William Jefferson’s net worth was between $66,006 and $1,004,995 in 2007, according to Jefferson’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Jefferson.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

William Jefferson has sponsored 103 bills between Jan 16, 1991. and Sep 29, 2008 of which 97 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Jefferson has co-sponsored 2312 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Jefferson 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.)

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.