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Rep. John Mica [R-FL7]
U.S. Representative, Florida’s 7th District

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State:Florida [map]
District:7th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jan 27, 1943 / 66 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

John Mica has represented Florida’s 7th congressional district since 1993.

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2010
U.S. RepresentativeFlorida’s 7th
(was preceeded by Sam Gibbons)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Mica's bills without Mica 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 Mica missed 194 (2%) of 11065 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 Mica in 2007-2008 was $14,800 from employees of ICI Homes. John Mica’s net worth was between $3,201,011 and $9,600,999 in 2007, according to Mica’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Mica.

Committee Membership

John Mica sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Mica has sponsored 63 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 50 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Mica has co-sponsored 1040 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Mica 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 Mica’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3678: To amend title 49, United States Code, to modify the authority of the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to issue regulations and security directives using emergency procedures.
H.Con.Res. 212: Expressing the sense of Congress on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of historic events in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and reaffirming the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the United States and the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.
H.R. 3307: To direct the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study of the population of the South Atlantic red snapper fishery, and to limit the authority of the Secretary to promulgate any interim rule that prohibits fishing in the South Atlantic red snapper fishery.
H.R. 423: Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act
H.R. 480: St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.