Rep. Jerry Lewis [R-CA41]
U.S. Representative, California’s 41^st District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Jerry Lewis’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	California [map]
District:	41^st Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Oct 21, 1934 / 75 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 12-16-09 03 0:58:40 to 0:59:40 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Jerry Lewis has represented California’s 41^st congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Jerry Lewis:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	California’s 41^st	(was preceeded by Rep. Gary Miller [R-CA42])
1993-2002	U.S. Representative	California’s 40^th	(was preceeded by Christopher Cox)
1983-1992	U.S. Representative	California’s 35^th	(was preceeded by Rep. David Dreier [R-CA26])
1979-1982	U.S. Representative	California’s 37^th	(was preceeded by Shirley Pettis)

Sponsorship Analysis

Lewis 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Jerry Lewis missed 550 (4%) of 12677 votes since Jan 23, 1990. 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 Lewis in 2007-2008 was $16,800 from employees of Matich Corp. Jerry Lewis’s net worth was between $580,009 and $1,400,000 in 2007, according to Lewis’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Lewis.

Committee Membership

Jerry Lewis sits on the following committees:

Ranking Member, House Committee on Appropriations

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Jerry Lewis has sponsored 37 bills since Jan 3, 1989 of which 18 haven't made it out of committee and 15 were successfully enacted. Lewis has co-sponsored 910 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Lewis 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 Lewis’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 721: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any major health care reform bill considered on the floor of the House should be available for viewing for 30 calendar days.
	H.R. 1854: To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to modify an environmental infrastructure project for Big Bear Lake, California.
	H.Con.Res. 101: Providing for the acceptance of a statue of Ronald Wilson Reagan from the people of California for placement in the United States Capitol.

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