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Rep. John Larson [D-CT1]
U.S. Representative, Connecticut’s 1st District

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State:Connecticut [map]
District:1st Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jul 22, 1948 / 61 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

John Larson has represented Connecticut’s 1st congressional district since 1999.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by John Larson:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1999-2010
U.S. RepresentativeConnecticut’s 1st
(was preceeded by Barbara Kennelly)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJohn Larson missed 421 (6%) of 7560 votes since Jan 6, 1999. 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 Larson in 2007-2008 was $55,600 from employees of United Technologies. John Larson’s net worth was between $106,007 and $340,000 in 2007, according to Larson’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Larson.

Committee Membership

John Larson sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Larson has sponsored 88 bills since Jan 6, 1999 of which 83 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Larson has co-sponsored 1239 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Larson 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 Larson’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 834: Electing a Member to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
H.Res. 921: Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
H.J.Res. 49: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States concerning the election of the Members of the House of Representatives.
H.R. 2615: Energy-Efficient Commercial Roofs Act of 2009
H.R. 2526: Medical FSA Improvement Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.