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Rep. Michael (Mike) Rogers [R-AL3]
U.S. Representative, Alabama’s 3rd District

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State:Alabama [map]
District:3rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jul 16, 1958 / 51 years old

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

Congressional Service

Michael Rogers has represented Alabama’s 3rd congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Michael Rogers:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeAlabama’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Bob Riley)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordMichael Rogers missed 98 (2%) of 5350 votes since Jan 7, 2003. 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 Rogers in 2007-2008 was $32,193 from employees of Southern Co. Michael Rogers’s net worth was between $1,432,017 and $3,929,999 in 2007, according to Rogers’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Rogers.

Committee Membership

Michael Rogers sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.