The House next meets Nov 23, 2009.

Hilda Solis
Former U.S. Representative from California’s 32^nd District , 2003-2009 (Democrat)

Birthday:

Oct 20, 1957

Official YouTube Feed

“Solis Speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit” - Dec 3, 2008 4:18 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 09-07-06 0:07:13 to 0:08:30 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Hilda Solis:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2009	U.S. Representative	California’s 32^nd	(was preceeded by Rep. Diane Watson [D-CA33])
2001-2002	U.S. Representative	California’s 31^st	(was preceeded by Matthew Martínez)

Sponsorship Analysis

Solis 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Hilda Solis missed 217 (4%) of 5386 votes between Jan 3, 2001. and Feb 24, 2009. 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 Solis in 2007-2008 was $11,500 from employees of American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees. Hilda Solis’s net worth was between $131,005 and $315,000 in 2007, according to Solis’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Solis.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Hilda Solis has sponsored 57 bills between Jan 3, 2001. and Feb 13, 2009 of which 49 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Solis has co-sponsored 1442 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Solis 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.)

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