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Rep. Devin Nunes [R-CA21]
U.S. Representative, California’s 21st District

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State:California [map]
District:21st Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Oct 1, 1973 / 36 years old

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

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Congressional Service

Devin Nunes has represented California’s 21st congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Devin Nunes:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 21st
(was preceeded by William Thomas)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordDevin Nunes missed 197 (4%) of 5350 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 Nunes in 2007-2008 was $12,000 from employees of Visalia Lumber. Devin Nunes’s net worth was between $66,003 and $165,000 in 2007, according to Nunes’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Nunes.

Committee Membership

Devin Nunes sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Devin Nunes has sponsored 38 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 31 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Nunes has co-sponsored 448 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Nunes 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 Nunes’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 4087: To extend temporarily the suspension of duty on nylon woolpacks used to package wool.
H.Res. 276: To provide earmark reform in the House of Representatives.
H.R. 3105: Turn on the Pumps Act
H.R. 1945: Tule River Tribe Water Development Act
H.R. 996: To temporarily exempt certain public and private development projects from any requirement for a review, statement, or analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and for other purposes.

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