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Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA6]
U.S. Representative, California’s 6th District

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State:California [map]
District:6th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Nov 3, 1937 / 72 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Lynn Woolsey has represented California’s 6th congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Lynn Woolsey:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2010
U.S. RepresentativeCalifornia’s 6th
(was preceeded by Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA])

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordLynn Woolsey missed 441 (4%) of 11209 votes since Jan 5, 1993. 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 Woolsey in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of American Postal Workers Union. Lynn Woolsey’s net worth was between $406,021 and $1,141,000 in 2007, according to Woolsey’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Woolsey.

Committee Membership

Lynn Woolsey sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Lynn Woolsey has sponsored 121 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 111 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Woolsey has co-sponsored 3820 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Woolsey 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 Woolsey’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 2339: Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Act
H.R. 2515: Domestic Violence Leave Act
H.R. 1324: Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2009
H.Con.Res. 77: Recognizing and honoring the signing by President Abraham Lincoln of the legislation authorizing the establishment of collegiate programs at Gallaudet University.
H.Res. 211: Supporting the goals and ideals of National Women's History Month.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.