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Marilyn Musgrave
Former U.S. Representative from Colorado’s 4^th District , 2003-2008 (Republican)

Birthday:

Jan 27, 1949

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Marilyn Musgrave:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2008	U.S. Representative	Colorado’s 4^th	(was preceeded by Bob Schaffer)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Marilyn Musgrave missed 139 (3%) of 4311 votes between Jan 7, 2003. and Dec 10, 2008. 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 Musgrave in 2007-2008 was $49,787 from employees of Susan B Anthony List. Marilyn Musgrave’s net worth was between $-62,993 and $629,997 in 2007, according to Musgrave’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Musgrave.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Marilyn Musgrave has sponsored 41 bills between Jan 7, 2003. and Sep 29, 2008 of which 35 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Musgrave has co-sponsored 882 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Musgrave 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.)

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.