Rep. Bart Stupak [D-MI1]
U.S. Representative, Michigan’s 1^st District

Track Bart Stupak

We have two feeds for every member of Congress. Select a feed for more information:

Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Bart Stupak’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Michigan [map]
District:	1^st Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Feb 29, 1952 / 57 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed

“Stupak Named MVP in 2009 Congressional Baseball Game” - Jul 1, 2009 7:41 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 12-10-09 03 2:29:20 to 2:31:40 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Bart Stupak has represented Michigan’s 1^st congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Bart Stupak:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Representative	Michigan’s 1^st	(was preceeded by Rep. John Conyers [D-MI14])

Sponsorship Analysis

Stupak 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Bart Stupak missed 525 (5%) of 11209 votes since Jan 5, 1993. 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 Stupak in 2007-2008 was $12,000 from employees of Plumbers/Pipefitters Union. Bart Stupak’s net worth was between $-1,675,982 and $29,996 in 2007, according to Stupak’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Stupak.

Committee Membership

Bart Stupak sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Bart Stupak has sponsored 261 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 236 haven't made it out of committee and 8 were successfully enacted. Stupak has co-sponsored 2084 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Stupak 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 Stupak’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 623: Requesting that the President focus appropriate attention on neighborhood crime prevention and community policing, and coordinate certain Federal efforts to participate in National Night Out, which occurs the first Tuesday of August each year, including by supporting local efforts and community watch groups and by supporting local officials, to promote community safety and help provide homeland security.
	H.R. 3540: To modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior.
	H.R. 905: Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve Boundary Modification Act
	H.R. 3946: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the sale of dishwashing detergent in the United States if the detergent contains a high level of phosphorus, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 3917: Medicare Nuclear Medicine Payment Group Clarification Act of 2009

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

GovTrack.us

Log In