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Tom Lantos
Former U.S. Representative from California’s 12th District , 1993-2008 (Democrat)

Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

Photo of Lantos
Birthday:Feb 1, 1928

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Tom Lantos:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2008
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 12th
(was preceeded by Tom Campbell)
1981-1992
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 11th
(was preceeded by William Royer)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordTom Lantos missed 737 (7%) of 10990 votes between Jan 23, 1990. and Feb 7, 2008. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Tom Lantos has sponsored 126 bills between May 2, 1991. and Jan 29, 2008 of which 98 haven't made it out of committee and 9 were successfully enacted. Lantos has co-sponsored 2563 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Lantos 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.)

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

 
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