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Rep. Paul Kanjorski [D-PA11]
U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania’s 11th District

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State:Pennsylvania [map]
District:11th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Apr 2, 1937 / 72 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Paul Kanjorski has represented Pennsylvania’s 11th congressional district since 1985.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Paul Kanjorski:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1985-2010
U.S. RepresentativePennsylvania’s 11th
(was preceeded by Frank Harrison)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordPaul Kanjorski missed 224 (2%) of 12677 votes since Jan 23, 1990. 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 Kanjorski in 2007-2008 was $33,000 from employees of AXA. Paul Kanjorski’s net worth was between $1,847,011 and $6,865,999 in 2007, according to Kanjorski’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Kanjorski.

Committee Membership

Paul Kanjorski sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Paul Kanjorski has sponsored 170 bills since Jan 3, 1989 of which 157 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Kanjorski has co-sponsored 1215 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Kanjorski 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 Kanjorski’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3778: Medical Education Development Act of 2009
H.R. 3890: Accountability and Transparency in Rating Agencies Act
H.R. 3818: Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009
H.R. 3817: Investor Protection Act of 2009
H.R. 2610: To amend section 1886 of the Social Security Act to continue sole community hospital treatment for certain hospitals.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.