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Rep. Walter Jones, Jr. [R-NC3]
U.S. Representative, North Carolina’s 3rd District

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State:North Carolina [map]
District:3rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Feb 10, 1943 / 66 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Walter Jones has represented North Carolina’s 3rd congressional district since 1995.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Walter Jones:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1995-2010
U.S. RepresentativeNorth Carolina’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Martin Lancaster)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Jones is a far-right Republican 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"
Jones is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Jones’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordWalter Jones missed 295 (3%) of 9943 votes since Jan 4, 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 Jones in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of American Bankers Assn. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Jones.

Committee Membership

Walter Jones sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Walter Jones has sponsored 137 bills since Jan 4, 1995 of which 126 haven't made it out of committee and 6 were successfully enacted. Jones has co-sponsored 1904 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Jones 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 Jones’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3557: To provide an emergency cost-of-living increase for Social Security benefits for 2010.
H.R. 2398: Service Members First-Time Homebuyer Relief Act of 2009
H.R. 1701: PTSD/TBI Guaranteed Review For Heroes Act
H.R. 2727: Financial Transparency Restoration Act
H.R. 3036: To direct the Secretary of Defense to determine and disclose the costs incurred in taking a Member, officer, or employee of Congress on a trip outside the United States so that such costs may be included in any report the Member, officer, or employee is required to file with respect to the trip under applicable law or rules of the House of Representatives or Senate.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.