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Rep. Tom Price [R-GA6]
U.S. Representative, Georgia’s 6th District

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State:Georgia [map]
District:6th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Oct 8, 1954 / 55 years old

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

Price’s latest tweet:WH keeps a firm grip on $700 billion TARP slush fund. Now they're bragging about paying down the deficit even though required by the law..(Nov 20, 2009)
Official YouTube Feed
“Rep. Tom Price Thanks Those Who Came to the 9/12 March on Washington” - Nov 18, 2009 11:13 PM. Watch Video.
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Tom Price has represented Georgia’s 6th congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Tom Price:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativeGeorgia’s 6th
(was preceeded by Sen. John Isakson [R-GA])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Price 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.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Price is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Price’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordTom Price missed 63 (2%) of 3985 votes since Jan 4, 2005. 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

Tom Price sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.