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Rep. Dennis Moore [D-KS3]
U.S. Representative, Kansas’s 3rd District

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State:Kansas [map]
District:3rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Nov 8, 1945 / 64 years old

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

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“Dennis Moore honors KU's National Championship victory” - Apr 30, 2008 7:55 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Dennis Moore has represented Kansas’s 3rd congressional district since 1999.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Dennis Moore:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1999-2010
U.S. RepresentativeKansas’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Vincent Snowbarger)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordDennis Moore missed 106 (1%) of 7560 votes since Jan 6, 1999. 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 Moore in 2007-2008 was $25,119 from employees of QC Holdings. Dennis Moore’s net worth was between $390,018 and $1,075,000 in 2007, according to Moore’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Moore.

Committee Membership

Dennis Moore sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Dennis Moore has sponsored 87 bills since Jan 6, 1999 of which 69 haven't made it out of committee and 8 were successfully enacted. Moore has co-sponsored 1828 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Moore 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 Moore’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 2571: Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2009
H.R. 3682: Kelsey Smith Act of 2009
H.Res. 317: Recognizing the region from Manhattan, Kansas, to Columbia, Missouri, as the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor, and for other purposes.
H.R. 2495: Federal Real Property Disposal Enhancement Act of 2009
H.R. 2246: Community Building Code Administration Grant Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.