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Rep. Robert Wexler [D-FL19]
U.S. Representative, Florida’s 19th District

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State:Florida [map]
District:19th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jan 2, 1961 / 48 years old

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

Congressional Service

Robert Wexler has represented Florida’s 19th congressional district since 1997.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Robert Wexler:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2010
U.S. RepresentativeFlorida’s 19th
(was preceeded by Harry Johnston)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Wexler is a rank-and-file 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordRobert Wexler missed 684 (8%) of 8603 votes since Jan 7, 1997. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Committee Membership

Robert Wexler sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Robert Wexler has sponsored 60 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 53 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Wexler has co-sponsored 2662 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Wexler 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 Wexler’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Con.Res. 74: Supporting the goals and ideals of a decade of action for road safety with a global target to reduce by 50 percent the predicted increase in global road deaths between 2010 and 2020.
H.R. 1425: Wartime Treatment Study Act
H.R. 2536: Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act
H.R. 1832: Medicare Prescription Drug Affordability Act of 2009
H.R. 1508: Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2009

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

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.