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Rep. Victor (Vic) Snyder [D-AR2]
U.S. Representative, Arkansas’s 2nd District

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State:Arkansas [map]
District:2nd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Sep 27, 1947 / 62 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Victor Snyder has represented Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district since 1997.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Victor Snyder:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2010
U.S. RepresentativeArkansas’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Raymond Thornton)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordVictor Snyder missed 263 (3%) 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 Snyder in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of American Assn for Justice. Victor Snyder’s net worth was between $408,015 and $1,096,000 in 2007, according to Snyder’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Snyder.

Committee Membership

Victor Snyder sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Victor Snyder has sponsored 23 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 20 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Snyder has co-sponsored 1095 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Snyder 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 Snyder’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3285: To amend that portion of title 28, United States Code, commonly called the Tort Claims Act, in order to assure that individuals accompanying Federal employees who are engaged in missions for the United States Government in foreign countries have legal recourse against the Government for certain tort claims, and for other purposes.
H.Res. 329: Recognizing the anniversary of the tragic accident of the steamboat ship SS Sultana.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.