The House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Rep. Zach Wamp [R-TN3]
U.S. Representative, Tennessee’s 3^rd District

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Outside Links

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Zach Wamp’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Tennessee [map]
District:	3^rd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Oct 28, 1957 / 52 years old

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

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“Clear proof of our momentum in Rutherford Co tonight. 3 Mayors, other officials supporting me 4 Governor. Will have "enough" money and win !.” (Nov 21, 2009)

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-06-09 03 2:06:15 to 2:07:05 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Zach Wamp has represented Tennessee’s 3^rd congressional district since 1995.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Zach Wamp:

When	Role	Representing
1995-2010	U.S. Representative	Tennessee’s 3^rd	(was preceeded by Marilyn Lloyd)

Sponsorship Analysis

Wamp is a far-right 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Zach Wamp missed 266 (3%) of 9943 votes since Jan 4, 1995. 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 Wamp in 2007-2008 was $18,900 from employees of Lawler-Wood Inc. Zach Wamp’s net worth was between $1,001 and $15,000 in 2007, according to Wamp’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Wamp.

Committee Membership

Zach Wamp sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Appropriations

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Zach Wamp has sponsored 30 bills since Jan 4, 1995 of which 24 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Wamp has co-sponsored 1706 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Wamp 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 Wamp’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 423: Expressing support for a national day of remembrance for the workers of the nuclear weapons program of the United States.
	H.Con.Res. 84: Supporting the goals and objectives of a National Military Appreciation Month.
	H.Con.Res. 125: Directing the Architect of the Capitol to design and place an educational display in the Capitol Visitor Center to explain the significance of the naming of Emancipation Hall.
	H.R. 1805: American Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2009
	H.Res. 256: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that all Americans should participate in a moment of silence to reflect upon the service and sacrifice of members of the United States Armed Forces both at home and abroad.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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