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Rep. Ronald (Ron) Paul [R-TX14]
U.S. Representative, Texas’s 14th District

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State:Texas [map]
District:14th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Aug 20, 1935 / 74 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“CNN's Ali Velshi interviews Congressman Ron Paul” - Jan 27, 2010 8:07 PM. Watch Video.
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Ronald Paul has represented Texas’s 14th congressional district since 1997.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Ronald Paul:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2010
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 14th
(was preceeded by Gregory Laughlin)
1979-1984
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 22nd
(was preceeded by Robert Gammage)
1975-1976
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 22nd
(was preceeded by Robert Casey)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordRonald Paul missed 873 (10%) of 8747 votes since Jan 7, 1997. 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 Paul in 2007-2008 was $79,956 from employees of US Army. Ronald Paul’s net worth was between $2,061,039 and $4,768,000 in 2007, according to Paul’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Paul.

Committee Membership

Ronald Paul sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Ronald Paul has sponsored 371 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 368 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Paul has co-sponsored 2085 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Paul 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 Paul’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 2121: To authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property in Galveston, Texas, to the Galveston Historical Foundation.
H.R. 2629: Coercion is Not Health Care Act
H.R. 2630: Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act
H.R. 2631: Affordable Gas Price Act
H.R. 2533: Sanctity of Life Act of 2009

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

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