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Rep. Steve King [R-IA5]
U.S. Representative, Iowa’s 5th District

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State:Iowa [map]
District:5th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:May 28, 1949 / 60 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“Congressman King and Congresswoman Bachmann Discuss House Call Event” - Nov 6, 2009 8:32 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Steve King has represented Iowa’s 5th congressional district since 2003.

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeIowa’s 5th
(was preceeded by Rep. Thomas Latham [R-IA4])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"King 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"
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

Voting RecordSteve King missed 93 (2%) of 5206 votes since Jan 7, 2003. 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 $10,000 from employees of AG Processing. Steve King’s net worth was between $280,003 and $600,000 in 2007, according to King’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for King.

Committee Membership

Steve King sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Steve King has sponsored 43 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 42 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. King has co-sponsored 637 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.R. 3580: New IDEA (Illegal Deduction Elimination Act)
H.R. 4107: National Right-to-Work Act
H.R. 2296: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act of 2009
H.Res. 208: Chronicling the efforts of United States and Coalition forces to bring freedom, safety, and security to Iraq and recognizing the importance of the "surge strategy" in completing that mission.
H.Res. 292: Congratulating the on-premise sign industry for its contributions to the success of small businesses on the occasion of its 63rd Annual International Sign Expo.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.