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Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA27]
U.S. Representative, California’s 27th District

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State:California [map]
District:27th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Oct 24, 1954 / 55 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Brad Sherman has represented California’s 27th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Brad Sherman:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 27th
(was preceeded by Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA29])
1997-2002
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 24th
(was preceeded by Anthony Beilenson)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordBrad Sherman missed 103 (1%) 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 Sherman in 2007-2008 was $20,150 from employees of Speciality Merchandise Corp. Brad Sherman’s net worth was between $555,017 and $3,011,997 in 2007, according to Sherman’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Sherman.

Committee Membership

Brad Sherman sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Brad Sherman has sponsored 60 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 54 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Sherman has co-sponsored 1590 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Sherman 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 Sherman’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 2290: International Uranium Extraction and Milling Control Act of 2009
H.R. 2483: Increasing Homeownership Opportunities Act
H.R. 2375: Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps Designation Implementation Act
H.R. 1801: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 70 percent tax on certain compensation received from certain companies receiving Federal bailout funds.
H.R. 3515: Export Control Improvements Act

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.