Rep. Clifford (Cliff) Stearns [R-FL6]
U.S. Representative, Florida’s 6^th District

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Outside Links

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Clifford Stearns’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Florida [map]
District:	6^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Apr 16, 1941 / 68 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 12-16-09 01 0:58:45 to 1:01:05 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Clifford Stearns has represented Florida’s 6^th congressional district since 1989.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Clifford Stearns:

When	Role	Representing
1989-2010	U.S. Representative	Florida’s 6^th	(was preceeded by Kenneth MacKay)

Sponsorship Analysis

Stearns is a rank-and-file Republican 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Clifford Stearns missed 192 (2%) of 12677 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.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Stearns in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of American Bankers Assn. Clifford Stearns’s net worth was between $1,980,043 and $8,875,997 in 2007, according to Stearns’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Stearns.

Committee Membership

Clifford Stearns sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Member, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Clifford Stearns has sponsored 183 bills since Jan 3, 1989 of which 164 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Stearns has co-sponsored 1706 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Stearns 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 Stearns’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 3685: To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include on the main page of the Internet website of the Department of Veterans Affairs a hyperlink to the VetSuccess Internet website and to publicize such Internet website.
	H.Res. 650: Recognizing that country music has made a tremendous contribution to American life and culture and declaring country music to be a uniquely American art form.
	H.Res. 902: Expressing support for the designation of January 28, 2010, as National Data Privacy Day.
	H.Res. 919: Supporting the goals and ideals of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month.
	H.Res. 413: Supporting the goals and ideals of "IEEE Engineering the Future" Day on May 13, 2009, and for other purposes.

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