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Rep. Dale Kildee [D-MI5]
U.S. Representative, Michigan’s 5th District

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State:Michigan [map]
District:5th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Sep 16, 1929 / 80 years old

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

Congressional Service

Dale Kildee has represented Michigan’s 5th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Dale Kildee:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeMichigan’s 5th
(was preceeded by James Barcia)
1993-2002
U.S. RepresentativeMichigan’s 9th
(was preceeded by Guy Vander Jagt)
1977-1992
U.S. RepresentativeMichigan’s 7th

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordDale Kildee missed 3 (0%) of 12533 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.

Committee Membership

Dale Kildee sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Dale Kildee has sponsored 83 bills since Jun 26, 1991 of which 63 haven't made it out of committee and 12 were successfully enacted. Kildee has co-sponsored 2791 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Kildee 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 Kildee’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3742: To amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.
H.R. 2004: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4282 Beach Street in Akron, Michigan, as the "Akron Veterans Memorial Post Office".
H.R. 3982: Reengaging Americans in Serious Education by Uniting Programs Act
H.R. 1761: Responsible Use of Taxpayer Help Act
H.R. 1578: Fast Track to College Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.