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Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY28]
U.S. Representative, New York’s 28^th District

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Louise Slaughter’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	New York [map]
District:	28^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Aug 14, 1929 / 80 years old

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Congressional Service

Louise Slaughter has represented New York’s 28^th congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Louise Slaughter:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Representative	New York’s 28^th	(was preceeded by Matthew McHugh)
1987-1992	U.S. Representative	New York’s 30^th	(was preceeded by Fred Eckert)

Sponsorship Analysis

Slaughter is a far-left 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.

Slaughter is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Slaughter’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Louise Slaughter missed 629 (5%) of 12533 votes since Jan 23, 1990. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Committee Membership

Louise Slaughter sits on the following committees:

Chair, House Committee on Rules

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Louise Slaughter has sponsored 135 bills since Feb 4, 1991 of which 131 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Slaughter has co-sponsored 2643 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Slaughter 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 Slaughter’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 738: Recognizing the 15th anniversary of the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
	H.Res. 808: Providing for consideration of the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2647) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, to provide special pays and allowances to certain members of the Armed Forces, expand concurrent receipt of military retirement and VA disability benefits to disabled military retirees, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 3786: Reciprocal Market Access Act of 2009
	H.Res. 903: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3962) to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3961) to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform the Medicare SGR payment system for physicians.
	H.R. 4057: To amend the Wool Suit and Textile Trade Extension Act of 2004 to provide for certain payments from the Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund, and for other purposes.

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