Rep. John Linder [R-GA7]
U.S. Representative, Georgia’s 7^th District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

John Linder’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Georgia [map]
District:	7^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Sep 9, 1942 / 67 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-07-09 01 2:42:20 to 2:44:00 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

John Linder has represented Georgia’s 7^th congressional district since 2003.

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

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	Georgia’s 7^th	(was preceeded by Bob Barr)
1997-2002	U.S. Representative	Georgia’s 11^th	(was preceeded by Cynthia McKinney)
1993-1996	U.S. Representative	Georgia’s 4^th	(was preceeded by Ben Jones)

Sponsorship Analysis

Linder is a rank-and-file 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

John Linder missed 401 (4%) of 11209 votes since Jan 5, 1993. 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 Linder in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of AFLAC Inc. John Linder’s net worth was between $5,465,010 and $26,649,998 in 2007, according to Linder’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Linder.

Committee Membership

John Linder sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Ways and Means

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Linder has sponsored 34 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 30 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Linder has co-sponsored 1050 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Linder 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 Linder’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Con.Res. 118: Supporting the goals of Smart Irrigation Month, which recognizes the advances in irrigation technology and practices that help raise healthy plants and increase crop yields while using water resources more efficiently and encourages the adoption of smart irrigation practices throughout the United States to further improve water-use efficiency in agricultural, residential, and commercial activities.
	H.Con.Res. 18: Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should resume normal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 135: Twenty-First Century Water Commission Act of 2009
	H.R. 25: Fair Tax Act of 2009

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