Rick Renzi
Former U.S. Representative from Arizona’s 1^st District , 2003-2009 (Republican)

Birthday:

Jun 11, 1958

On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Rick Renzi:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2009	U.S. Representative	Arizona’s 1^st	(was preceeded by Rep. Jeff Flake [R-AZ6])

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Rick Renzi missed 178 (4%) of 4311 votes between Jan 7, 2003. and Dec 10, 2008. 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 Renzi in 2007-2008 was $3,000 from employees of Fannie Mae. Rick Renzi’s net worth was between $1,003,004 and $5,045,000 in 2007, according to Renzi’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Renzi.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Rick Renzi has sponsored 58 bills between Jan 7, 2003. and Aug 1, 2008 of which 43 haven't made it out of committee and 8 were successfully enacted. Renzi has co-sponsored 578 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Renzi 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.)

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