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Rep. Timothy Ryan [D-OH17]
U.S. Representative, Ohio’s 17th District

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State:Ohio [map]
District:17th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jul 16, 1973 / 36 years old

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

Ryan’s latest tweet:Testifying on behalf of Rocky Baragona. A US soldier killed by a negligent Contractor. No recourse in US Court. We're gonna change that..(Nov 18, 2009)
Official YouTube Feed
“Rep. Ryan's Remarks on Behalf of the Baragona Family in Senate Subcommittee Hearing” - Nov 18, 2009 9:13 PM. Watch Video.
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Timothy Ryan has represented Ohio’s 17th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Timothy Ryan:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeOhio’s 17th
(was preceeded by James Traficant)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Ryan 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"
Ryan is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Ryan sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Ryan’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordTimothy Ryan missed 169 (3%) of 5206 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 Ryan in 2007-2008 was $33,250 from employees of PMA Group. Timothy Ryan’s net worth was between $87,004 and $271,000 in 2007, according to Ryan’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Ryan.

Committee Membership

Timothy Ryan sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Timothy Ryan has sponsored 32 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 28 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Ryan has co-sponsored 1102 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Ryan 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 Ryan’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 2378: Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act
H.R. 2349: Lieutenant Colonel Dominic "Rocky" Baragona Justice for American Heroes Harmed by Contractors Act
H.R. 3455: To make available funds from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for funding a voluntary employees' beneficiary association with respect to former employees of Delphi Corporation.
H.R. 3312: Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion, and Supporting Parents Act
H.R. 229: To provide for the retention of the name of Mount McKinley.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.