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John McHugh
Former U.S. Representative from New York’s 23rd District , 2003-2009 (Republican)

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Birthday:Sep 29, 1948

Congressional Service

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2009
U.S. RepresentativeNew York’s 23rd
(was preceeded by Sherwood Boehlert)
1993-2002
U.S. RepresentativeNew York’s 24th
(was preceeded by Gerald Solomon)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"McHugh 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"
McHugh is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor McHugh’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJohn McHugh missed 299 (3%) of 10889 votes between Jan 5, 1993. and Sep 17, 2009. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John McHugh has sponsored 95 bills between Jan 5, 1993. and Sep 10, 2009 of which 83 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. McHugh has co-sponsored 2404 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by McHugh 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 McHugh’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 22: United States Postal Service Financial Relief Act of 2009
H.R. 2494: New York/New Jersey High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Expansion Act of 2009
H.Res. 300: Congratulating Camp Dudley YMCA of Westport, New York, on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.
H.R. 1400: To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1399: Maple Tapping Access Program Act

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

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.