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Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D-CA47]
U.S. Representative, California’s 47^th District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Loretta Sanchez’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	California [map]
District:	47^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Jan 7, 1960 / 49 years old

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

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-07-09 00 0:38:10 to 0:38:30 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Loretta Sanchez has represented California’s 47^th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Loretta Sanchez:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	California’s 47^th	(was preceeded by Christopher Cox)
1997-2002	U.S. Representative	California’s 46^th	(was preceeded by Robert Dornan)

Sponsorship Analysis

Sanchez 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Loretta Sanchez missed 417 (5%) of 8603 votes since Jan 7, 1997. 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 Sanchez in 2007-2008 was $26,000 from employees of PMA Group. Loretta Sanchez’s net worth was between $251,003 and $4,665,998 in 2007, according to Sanchez’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Sanchez.

Committee Membership

Loretta Sanchez sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Armed Services

Member, House Committee on Homeland Security

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Loretta Sanchez has sponsored 63 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 59 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Sanchez has co-sponsored 1474 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Sanchez 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 Sanchez’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 672: Calling on the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to release imprisoned bloggers and respect Internet freedom.
	H.R. 4014: Catastrophe Obligation Guarantee Act of 2009
	H.Res. 891: Expressing the gratitude of the House of Representatives for the service to our Nation of the Coast Guard and Marine Corps aircraft pilots and crewmembers lost off the coast of California on October 29, 2009, and for other purposes.
	H.Res. 904: Honoring women who have served and women who are currently serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom as members of the Armed Forces and recognizing their increasing and invaluable role to the success of current military operations.
	H.R. 2636: To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the establishment of a nonprofit corporation to support the athletic program of the Air Force Academy.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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