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Rep. Bob Inglis [R-SC4]
U.S. Representative, South Carolina’s 4th District

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State:South Carolina [map]
District:4th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Oct 11, 1959 / 50 years old

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

Inglis’s latest tweet:Tour at Siroflex showed the impact of regulations. They need to stay below 50 employees so as to avoid intrusive federal regulations..(Feb 9, 2010)
Official YouTube Feed
“Inglis welcomes Proterra to the Upstate, CU-ICAR” - Feb 4, 2010 8:59 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Bob Inglis has represented South Carolina’s 4th congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Bob Inglis:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativeSouth Carolina’s 4th
(was preceeded by Sen. Jim DeMint [R-SC])
1993-1998
U.S. RepresentativeSouth Carolina’s 4th
(was preceeded by Elizabeth Patterson)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordBob Inglis missed 51 (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.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Inglis in 2007-2008 was $10,000 from employees of Honeywell International. Bob Inglis’s net worth was between $327,023 and $1,039,999 in 2007, according to Inglis’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Inglis.

Committee Membership

Bob Inglis sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Bob Inglis has sponsored 38 bills since Jan 4, 2005 of which 36 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Inglis has co-sponsored 335 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Inglis 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 Inglis’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 4143: To suspend temporarily the duty on silver sodium hydrogen zirconium phosphate.
H.R. 2380: Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2009
H.Res. 714: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any interest or dividends repaid to the government through the Troubled Asset Relief Program should be used solely for debt reduction, consistent with the authorizing legislation and Article One, Section Nine of the United States Constitution.
H.Res. 639: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any interest or dividends repaid to the government through the Troubled Asset Relief Program should be used solely for debt reduction, consistent with the authorizing legislation and Article One, Section Nine of the United States Constitution.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.