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Rep. K. Michael Conaway [R-TX11]
U.S. Representative, Texas’s 11th District

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State:Texas [map]
District:11th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jun 11, 1948 / 61 years old

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

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Congressional Service

Michael Conaway has represented Texas’s 11th congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Michael Conaway:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativeTexas’s 11th
(was preceeded by Rep. Thomas Edwards [D-TX17])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Conaway is a far-right 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"
Conaway is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Conaway sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Conaway’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordMichael Conaway missed 159 (4%) 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 Conaway in 2007-2008 was $10,500 from employees of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Michael Conaway’s net worth was between $3,489,136 and $8,793,000 in 2007, according to Conaway’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Conaway.

Committee Membership

Michael Conaway sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Michael Conaway has sponsored 19 bills since Jan 4, 2005 of which 15 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Conaway has co-sponsored 629 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Conaway 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 Conaway’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 1682: Bridge Life Extension Act of 2009
H.R. 2712: Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009
H.R. 3015: Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009
H.R. 2875: Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009
H.R. 96: Save Family-Owned Farms and Small Businesses Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.