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Rep. James (Jim) Marshall [D-GA8]
U.S. Representative, Georgia’s 8th District

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State:Georgia [map]
District:8th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Mar 31, 1948 / 61 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“Rep. Jim Marshall speaks on the House Floor about the 2010 Defense Authorization Bill” - Oct 8, 2009 10:04 PM. Watch Video.
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

James Marshall has represented Georgia’s 8th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by James Marshall:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativeGeorgia’s 8th
2003-2006
U.S. RepresentativeGeorgia’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Michael Collins)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Marshall is a moderate 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"
Marshall is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Marshall sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Marshall’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJames Marshall missed 254 (5%) of 5206 votes since Jan 7, 2003. 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 Marshall in 2007-2008 was $30,800 from employees of Citigroup Inc. James Marshall’s net worth was between $1,762,060 and $4,334,000 in 2007, according to Marshall’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Marshall.

Committee Membership

James Marshall sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.