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Rep. Candice Miller [R-MI10]
U.S. Representative, Michigan’s 10th District

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State:Michigan [map]
District:10th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:May 7, 1954 / 55 years old

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

Congressional Service

Candice Miller has represented Michigan’s 10th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Candice Miller:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeMichigan’s 10th
(was preceeded by David Bonior)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordCandice Miller missed 91 (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.

Committee Membership

Candice Miller sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Candice Miller has sponsored 20 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 17 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Miller has co-sponsored 585 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Miller 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 Miller’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3102: To increase the Federal share for transportation projects for the State of Michigan.
H.R. 276: Drug Free Water Act of 2009
H.J.Res. 11: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the number of persons in each State who are citizens of the United States.

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

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.