Thomas (Tom) Tancredo
Former U.S. Representative from Colorado’s 6^th District , 1999-2009 (Republican)

Birthday:

Dec 20, 1945

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Thomas Tancredo:

When	Role	Representing
1999-2009	U.S. Representative	Colorado’s 6^th	(was preceeded by Daniel Schaefer)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Thomas Tancredo missed 597 (9%) of 6521 votes between Jan 6, 1999. and Dec 10, 2008. 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 Tancredo in 2007-2008 was $5,000 from employees of US Immigration Reform PAC. Thomas Tancredo’s net worth was between $501,004 and $1,055,000 in 2007, according to Tancredo’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Tancredo.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Thomas Tancredo has sponsored 87 bills between Jan 6, 1999. and Sep 25, 2008 of which 76 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Tancredo has co-sponsored 1112 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Tancredo 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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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.