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Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA18]
U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania’s 18th District

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State:Pennsylvania [map]
District:18th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Sep 11, 1952 / 57 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Tim Murphy has represented Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Tim Murphy:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativePennsylvania’s 18th
(was preceeded by Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA14])

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordTim Murphy missed 118 (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 Murphy in 2007-2008 was $20,500 from employees of Allegheny Energy. Tim Murphy’s net worth was between $366,063 and $1,570,000 in 2007, according to Murphy’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Murphy.

Committee Membership

Tim Murphy sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Tim Murphy has sponsored 68 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 64 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Murphy has co-sponsored 710 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Murphy 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 Murphy’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 2227: American Conservation and Clean Energy Independence Act
H.R. 1745: Family Health Care Accessibility Act of 2009
H.R. 3104: Healthy Hospitals Act of 2009
H.R. 2871: Captain Scott Corwin Armed Forces Protection Act of 2009
H.R. 424: Protecting Senior's Nest Egg Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.