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Rep. Thaddeus (Thad) McCotter [R-MI11]
U.S. Representative, Michigan’s 11th District

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State:Michigan [map]
District:11th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Aug 22, 1965 / 44 years old

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

McCotter’s latest tweet:Rep. McCotter on Fox Red Eye Discussing KSM Being Tried in NYC Civilian Court http://bit.ly/4s56zf.(Nov 16, 2009)
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Congressional Service

Thaddeus McCotter has represented Michigan’s 11th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Thaddeus McCotter:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeMichigan’s 11th
(was preceeded by Joseph Knollenberg)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"McCotter 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordThaddeus McCotter missed 82 (2%) 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 McCotter in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of Air Line Pilots Assn. Thaddeus McCotter’s net worth was between $245,019 and $825,000 in 2007, according to McCotter’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for McCotter.

Committee Membership

Thaddeus McCotter sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.