The Senate meets today; the House next meets Nov 23, 2009.

Rep. C. Michael (Mike) Thompson [D-CA1]
U.S. Representative, California’s 1^st District

Track Michael Thompson

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Outside Links

The following external websites may be of interest:

Michael Thompson’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	California [map]
District:	1^st Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Jan 24, 1951 / 58 years old

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

On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Michael Thompson has represented California’s 1^st congressional district since 1999.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Michael Thompson:

When	Role	Representing
1999-2010	U.S. Representative	California’s 1^st	(was preceeded by Frank Riggs)

Sponsorship Analysis

Thompson 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Michael Thompson missed 89 (1%) of 7416 votes since Jan 6, 1999. 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 Thompson in 2007-2008 was $27,600 from employees of AKT Development. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Thompson.

Committee Membership

Michael Thompson sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Ways and Means

Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Michael Thompson has sponsored 103 bills since Jan 6, 1999 of which 89 haven't made it out of committee and 6 were successfully enacted. Thompson has co-sponsored 1143 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Thompson 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 Thompson’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 3918: Thermal Energy Cooling and Heating Act of 2009
	H.R. 4060: To amend the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 to repeal a provision of that Act relating to geothermal energy receipts.
	H.Res. 938: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the leaders of Congress and other legislative branch offices should work together to establish and implement a coordinated program for the reuse, recycling, and appropriate disposal of obsolete computers and other electronic equipment used by offices of the legislative branch.
	H.R. 4085: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an investment credit for property used to fabricate solar energy property, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 2291: Medicare Early Detection of Cancer Promotion Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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