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Rep. Dan Boren [D-OK2]
U.S. Representative, Oklahoma’s 2nd District

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State:Oklahoma [map]
District:2nd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Aug 2, 1973 / 36 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Dan Boren has represented Oklahoma’s 2nd congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Dan Boren:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativeOklahoma’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Brad Carson)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordDan Boren missed 112 (3%) 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 Boren in 2007-2008 was $25,300 from employees of Nix, Patterson & Roach. Dan Boren’s net worth was between $716,017 and $1,643,000 in 2007, according to Boren’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Boren.

Committee Membership

Dan Boren sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Dan Boren has sponsored 46 bills since Jan 4, 2005 of which 37 haven't made it out of committee and 6 were successfully enacted. Boren has co-sponsored 552 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Boren 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 Boren’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 310: HALE Scouts Act
H.R. 3651: Impact Aid Fairness and Equity Act of 2009
H.R. 3749: Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act
H.R. 1713: To name the South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture in Lane, Oklahoma, and the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 310 North Perry Street in Bennington, Oklahoma, in honor of former Congressman Wesley "Wes" Watkins.
H.R. 2304: Soldiers Targeted by Offensive Profiteering Act of 2009 (STOP Act)

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.