The House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Rep. Peter (Pete) King [R-NY3]
U.S. Representative, New York’s 3^rd District

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Outside Links

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Peter King’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	New York [map]
District:	3^rd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Apr 5, 1944 / 65 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-06-09 00 0:05:35 to 0:06:15 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Peter King has represented New York’s 3^rd congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Peter King:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Representative	New York’s 3^rd	(was preceeded by Robert Mrazek)

Sponsorship Analysis

King is a moderate 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Peter King missed 259 (2%) of 11065 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 King in 2007-2008 was $17,300 from employees of Adsi. Peter King’s net worth was between $51,002 and $115,000 in 2007, according to King’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for King.

Committee Membership

Peter King sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, House Committee on Homeland Security

Member, House Committee on Financial Services

Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Peter King has sponsored 186 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 161 haven't made it out of committee and 7 were successfully enacted. King has co-sponsored 1819 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by King 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 King’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 818: Supporting the goals and ideals of Fire Prevention Week and the work of firefighters in educating and protecting the communities of this Nation.
	H.Res. 898: Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi, a meaningful tripartite political dialogue toward national reconciliation, and the full restoration of democracy, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and internationally recognized human rights for all Burmese citizens.
	H.Res. 922: Directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to transmit to the House of Representatives all information in the possession of the Department of Homeland Security relating to the Department's planning, information sharing, and coordination with any state or locality receiving detainees held at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on or after January 20, 2009.
	H.R. 2611: To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Securing the Cities Initiative of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 2282: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.

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