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Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D-PA13]
U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania’s 13th District

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State:Pennsylvania [map]
District:13th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Oct 3, 1948 / 61 years old

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

Congressional Service

Allyson Schwartz has represented Pennsylvania’s 13th congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Allyson Schwartz:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativePennsylvania’s 13th
(was preceeded by Joseph Hoeffel)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordAllyson Schwartz missed 57 (1%) 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.

Committee Membership

Allyson Schwartz sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.