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Rep. Steven LaTourette [R-OH14]
U.S. Representative, Ohio’s 14th District

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State:Ohio [map]
District:14th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jul 22, 1954 / 55 years old

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

Congressional Service

Steven LaTourette has represented Ohio’s 14th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Steven LaTourette:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeOhio’s 14th
(was preceeded by Thomas Sawyer)
1995-2002
U.S. RepresentativeOhio’s 19th
(was preceeded by Eric Fingerhut)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"LaTourette 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordSteven LaTourette missed 325 (3%) of 9943 votes since Jan 4, 1995. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Committee Membership

Steven LaTourette sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Steven LaTourette has sponsored 88 bills since Jan 4, 1995 of which 58 haven't made it out of committee and 13 were successfully enacted. LaTourette has co-sponsored 1720 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by LaTourette 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 LaTourette’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3935: Save Our Dairy Farmers Act of 2009
H.R. 3788: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3900 Darrow Road in Stow, Ohio, as the "Corporal Joseph A. Tomci Post Office Building".
H.Res. 251: Directing the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit to the House of Representatives all information in his possession relating to specific communications with American International Group, Inc. (AIG).
H.R. 1582: Executive Bonus Repeal Act
H.R. 2750: Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.