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Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR2]
U.S. Representative, Oregon’s 2nd District

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State:Oregon [map]
District:2nd Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jan 10, 1957 / 52 years old

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

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“Greg Walden: Measure good stewardship by how you leave land for the future” - Nov 19, 2009 5:59 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Greg Walden has represented Oregon’s 2nd congressional district since 1999.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Greg Walden:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1999-2010
U.S. RepresentativeOregon’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Robert Smith)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Walden 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordGreg Walden missed 130 (2%) 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 Walden in 2007-2008 was $14,300 from employees of Columbia Helicopters. Greg Walden’s net worth was between $2,694,019 and $11,610,000 in 2007, according to Walden’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Walden.

Committee Membership

Greg Walden sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Greg Walden has sponsored 68 bills since Jan 6, 1999 of which 38 haven't made it out of committee and 14 were successfully enacted. Walden has co-sponsored 808 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Walden 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 Walden’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 2741: To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the City of Hermiston, Oregon, water recycling and reuse project, and for other purposes.
H.R. 352: Tumalo Water Conservation Project Act of 2009
H.R. 668: Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2009

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

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.