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Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA15]
U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania’s 15th District

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State:Pennsylvania [map]
District:15th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:May 24, 1960 / 49 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Charles Dent has represented Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Charles Dent:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativePennsylvania’s 15th
(was preceeded by Patrick Toomey)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordCharles Dent missed 6 (0%) 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 Dent in 2007-2008 was $29,350 from employees of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. Charles Dent’s net worth was between $168,050 and $878,000 in 2007, according to Dent’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Dent.

Committee Membership

Charles Dent sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Charles Dent has sponsored 29 bills since Jan 4, 2005 of which 25 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Dent has co-sponsored 479 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Dent 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 Dent’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 670: Congratulating and saluting the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary for celebrating its 75th anniversary, commending the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary for its contributions to the preservation of wildlife and the native ecology of the Appalachian Mountains and eastern Pennsylvania, and commending the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary for its dedication to educating the public and the international community about wildlife conservation.
H.Res. 869: Directing the Chief Administrative Officer to install cameras in the hearing room of the Committee on Rules.
H.R. 4039: Ending Defensive Medicine and Encouraging Innovative Reforms Act of 2009
H.R. 4030: To suspend temporarily the duty on Triethylenediamine.
H.R. 4083: To suspend temporarily the duty on polyoxethylene-/alkyletherphosphate.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.