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Rep. Russ Carnahan [D-MO3]
U.S. Representative, Missouri’s 3rd District

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State:Missouri [map]
District:3rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jul 10, 1958 / 51 years old

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

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Congressional Service

Russ Carnahan has represented Missouri’s 3rd congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Russ Carnahan:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativeMissouri’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Richard Gephardt)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordRuss Carnahan missed 79 (2%) of 4129 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.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Carnahan in 2007-2008 was $12,700 from employees of Slay Industries. Russ Carnahan’s net worth was between $51,005 and $439,998 in 2007, according to Carnahan’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Carnahan.

Committee Membership

Russ Carnahan sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Russ Carnahan has sponsored 20 bills since Jan 4, 2005 of which 16 haven't made it out of committee and 4 were successfully enacted. Carnahan has co-sponsored 815 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Carnahan 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 Carnahan’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3670: Historic Homeowners Revitalization Act of 2009
H.Res. 492: Supporting the goals and ideals of High-Performance Building Week.
H.R. 2746: To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for additional transportation assistance grants.
H.R. 3122: To confer upon the United States Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render final judgment on any legal or equitable claim against the United States to receive just compensation for the taking of certain lands in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1167: Green Streets Act of 2009

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