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Rep. Frank Wolf [R-VA10]
U.S. Representative, Virginia’s 10th District

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State:Virginia [map]
District:10th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jan 30, 1939 / 70 years old

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

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Congressional Service

Frank Wolf has represented Virginia’s 10th congressional district since 1981.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Frank Wolf:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1981-2010
U.S. RepresentativeVirginia’s 10th
(was preceeded by Joseph Fisher)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordFrank Wolf missed 129 (1%) 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 Wolf in 2007-2008 was $27,850 from employees of NVR Inc. Frank Wolf’s net worth was between $316,004 and $665,000 in 2007, according to Wolf’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Wolf.

Committee Membership

Frank Wolf sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Frank Wolf has sponsored 89 bills since May 2, 1991 of which 64 haven't made it out of committee and 16 were successfully enacted. Wolf has co-sponsored 1797 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Wolf 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 Wolf’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3757: George C. Marshall National Historic Site Study Act
H.R. 1403: School Food Recovery Act
H.Res. 636: Directing the Attorney General to transmit to the House of Representatives all information in the Attorney General's possession relating to the transfer or release of detainees held at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into the United States.
H.Res. 666: Recognizing Project HOPE for 50 years of exceptional service to improve and save the lives of millions of children and adults in developing nations through humanitarian assistance and health education.
H.Res. 200: Calling on the Egyptian Government to respect human rights and freedoms of religion and expression in Egypt.

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