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Rep. Nick Rahall, II [D-WV3]
U.S. Representative, West Virginia’s 3rd District

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State:West Virginia [map]
District:3rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:May 20, 1949 / 60 years old

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On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Nick Rahall has represented West Virginia’s 3rd congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Nick Rahall:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2010
U.S. RepresentativeWest Virginia’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Robert Wise)
1977-1992
U.S. RepresentativeWest Virginia’s 4th
(was preceeded by Kenneth Hechler)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordNick Rahall missed 231 (2%) of 12533 votes since Jan 23, 1990. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Committee Membership

Nick Rahall sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Nick Rahall has sponsored 115 bills since Jan 3, 1991 of which 86 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Rahall has co-sponsored 2005 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Rahall 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 Rahall’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3534: Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009
H.R. 3113: Upper Elk River Wild and Scenic Study Act
H.R. 3689: To provide for an extension of the legislative authority of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. to establish a Vietnam Veterans Memorial visitor center, and for other purposes.
H.Con.Res. 208: Supporting the goals and ideals of a National Miner's Day to celebrate and honor the contributions of miners and encouraging the people of the United States to participate in local and National activities celebrating and honoring the contributions of miners.
H.R. 1404: Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.