The Senate next meets Nov 30, 2009; the House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Rep. Gene Taylor [D-MS4]
U.S. Representative, Mississippi’s 4^th District

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Gene Taylor’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Mississippi [map]
District:	4^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Sep 17, 1953 / 56 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 10-22-09 01 0:45:50 to 0:48:40 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Gene Taylor has represented Mississippi’s 4^th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Gene Taylor:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	Mississippi’s 4^th	(was preceeded by Ronnie Shows)
1989-2002	U.S. Representative	Mississippi’s 5^th	(was preceeded by Trent Lott)

Sponsorship Analysis

Taylor 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Gene Taylor missed 274 (2%) of 12533 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 Taylor in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of Blue Dog PAC. Gene Taylor’s net worth was between $50,001 and $100,000 in 2007, according to Taylor’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Taylor.

Committee Membership

Gene Taylor sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Armed Services

Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Gene Taylor has sponsored 28 bills since May 1, 1991 of which 17 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Taylor has co-sponsored 1057 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Taylor 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 Taylor’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 1264: Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2009
	H.R. 1284: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 West Main Street in McLain, Mississippi, as the "Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office".

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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