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Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX30]
U.S. Representative, Texas’s 30th District

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State:Texas [map]
District:30th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Dec 3, 1935 / 74 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Eddie Johnson has represented Texas’s 30th congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Eddie Johnson:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2010
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 30th

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordEddie Johnson missed 551 (5%) of 11209 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 Johnson in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of American Assn for Justice. Eddie Johnson’s net worth was between $19,005 and $110,000 in 2007, according to Johnson’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Johnson.

Committee Membership

Eddie Johnson sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Eddie Johnson has sponsored 98 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 92 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Johnson has co-sponsored 2431 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Johnson 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 Johnson’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3730: Financial Education for Teachers and Students Act
H.R. 2257: Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2009
H.R. 2606: Home Buying Credit Expansion Act
H.Res. 480: Recognizing and honoring the historic election of women to the Kuwait parliament and its implications for gender equality in the region.
H.Res. 192: Recognizing National Nurses Week on May 6 through May 12, 2009.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.