The Senate meets today; the House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Rep. George (G.K.) Butterfield, Jr. [D-NC1]
U.S. Representative, North Carolina’s 1^st District

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Outside Links

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George Butterfield’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	North Carolina [map]
District:	1^st Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Apr 27, 1947 / 62 years old

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On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-07-09 01 1:19:10 to 1:20:35 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

George Butterfield has represented North Carolina’s 1^st congressional district since 2004.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by George Butterfield:

When	Role	Representing
2004-2010	U.S. Representative	North Carolina’s 1^st	(was preceeded by Frank Ballance)

Sponsorship Analysis

Butterfield 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

George Butterfield missed 169 (4%) of 4125 votes since Jul 21, 2004. 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 Butterfield in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of AT&T Inc. George Butterfield’s net worth was between $-161,990 and $1,979,991 in 2007, according to Butterfield’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Butterfield.

Committee Membership

George Butterfield sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Member, House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

George Butterfield has sponsored 31 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 22 haven't made it out of committee and 7 were successfully enacted. Butterfield has co-sponsored 756 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Butterfield 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 Butterfield’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Con.Res. 198: Recognizing Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury as the leading cause of death and disability in the United States for children and young adults from birth until 25 years of age and endorsing the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan to develop a seamless, standardized, evidence-based system of care universally accessible for all of these children, young adults, and their families, regardless of where they live in the country.
	H.R. 3892: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 West Highway 64 Bypass in Roper, North Carolina, as the "E.V. Wilkins Post Office".
	H.Res. 913: Recognizing and commending the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association on the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
	H.R. 2248: Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act of 2009
	H.R. 813: To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 306 East Main Street in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as the "J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

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