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Rep. Todd Platts [R-PA19]
U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania’s 19th District

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State:Pennsylvania [map]
District:19th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Mar 5, 1962 / 47 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Todd Platts has represented Pennsylvania’s 19th congressional district since 2001.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Todd Platts:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2001-2010
U.S. RepresentativePennsylvania’s 19th
(was preceeded by William Goodling)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordTodd Platts missed 209 (3%) of 6346 votes since Jan 3, 2001. 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 Platts in 2007-2008 was $7,250 from employees of Pfaltzgraff Co. Todd Platts’s net worth was between $8,013 and $125,000 in 2007, according to Platts’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Platts.

Committee Membership

Todd Platts sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Todd Platts has sponsored 73 bills since Jan 3, 2001 of which 66 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Platts has co-sponsored 1752 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Platts 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 Platts’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 769: Recognizing the benefits of service-learning as a teaching strategy to effectively engage youth in the community and classroom, and expressing support for the goals of the National Learn and Serve Challenge.
H.R. 3712: 1863 Gettysburg Campaign Act
H.Res. 878: Expressing support for the goals and ideals of National Family Literacy Day.
H.Res. 736: Honoring President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on "Dedication Day", November 19, 2009.
H.R. 4153: To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish national standards to prevent distracted driving, and for other purposes.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.