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Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH10]
U.S. Representative, Ohio’s 10^th District

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Ohio [map]
District:	10^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Oct 8, 1946 / 63 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed

“Dennis Kucinich calls for Single-Payer at a conference of registered nurses” - May 13, 2009 1:39 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-03-09 01 3:56:15 to 3:58:25 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Dennis Kucinich has represented Ohio’s 10^th congressional district since 1997.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Dennis Kucinich:

When	Role	Representing
1997-2010	U.S. Representative	Ohio’s 10^th	(was preceeded by Martin Hoke)

Sponsorship Analysis

Kucinich is a far-left 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.

Kucinich is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Kucinich tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Kucinich’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Dennis Kucinich missed 357 (4%) of 8603 votes since Jan 7, 1997. 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 Kucinich in 2007-2008 was $59,517 from employees of ActBlue. Dennis Kucinich’s net worth was between $-48,996 and $221,997 in 2007, according to Kucinich’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Kucinich.

Committee Membership

Dennis Kucinich sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Education and Labor

Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Dennis Kucinich has sponsored 95 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 91 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Kucinich has co-sponsored 2897 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Kucinich 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 Kucinich’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 865: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should adopt a target of 350 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide by which to evaluate domestic and international climate change policies, and for other purposes.
	H.J.Res. 26: Proclaiming Casimir Pulaski to be an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously.
	H.Res. 444: Expressing the Sense of Congress that the United States needs an industrial policy with regard to automobile, aerospace, shipping, and steel industries, which are vital to national and economic security.
	H.R. 2424: Federal Reserve Credit Facility Review Act of 2009
	H.R. 2850: Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2009

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