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Rep. Earl Pomeroy [D-ND]
U.S. Representative, North Dakota At Large

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State:North Dakota [map]
District: At Large
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Sep 2, 1952 / 57 years old

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

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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Earl Pomeroy:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2010
U.S. RepresentativeNorth Dakota(At-Large/Unknown)
(was preceeded by Sen. Byron Dorgan [D-ND])

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordEarl Pomeroy missed 257 (2%) of 11065 votes since Jan 5, 1993. 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 Pomeroy in 2007-2008 was $18,750 from employees of Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Earl Pomeroy’s net worth was between $128,009 and $395,000 in 2007, according to Pomeroy’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Pomeroy.

Committee Membership

Earl Pomeroy sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Earl Pomeroy has sponsored 133 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 128 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Pomeroy has co-sponsored 1401 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Pomeroy 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 Pomeroy’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3936: Preserve Benefits and Jobs Act of 2009
H.R. 4154: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rules in order to prevent tax increases and the imposition of compliance burdens on many more estates than would benefit from repeal, to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes.
H.R. 4070: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the incentives for the production of biodiesel.
H.R. 2277: Savings for Working Families Act of 2009
H.Res. 405: Commending the heroic efforts of the people fighting the floods in North Dakota.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.