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Rep. Jeffrey Fortenberry [R-NE1]
U.S. Representative, Nebraska’s 1st District

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State:Nebraska [map]
District:1st Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican

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

Congressional Service

Jeffrey Fortenberry has represented Nebraska’s 1st congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Jeffrey Fortenberry:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativeNebraska’s 1st
(was preceeded by Douglas Bereuter)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJeffrey Fortenberry missed 97 (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.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Fortenberry in 2007-2008 was $11,900 from employees of Sandhills Publishing. Jeffrey Fortenberry’s net worth was between $155,008 and $426,000 in 2007, according to Fortenberry’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Fortenberry.

Committee Membership

Jeffrey Fortenberry sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.