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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R-WA5]
U.S. Representative, Washington’s 5th District

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State:Washington [map]
District:5th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:May 22, 1969 / 40 years old

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

McMorris Rodgers’s latest tweet:TARP, Stimulus and a gathering storm of Debt is the subject of today's blog post: http://tinyurl.com/ykfcntl.(Feb 9, 2010)
Official YouTube Feed
“McMorris Rodgers Asking Questions of Admiral Mullen and Secretary Gates” - Feb 5, 2010 4:51 PM. Watch Video.
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Cathy McMorris Rodgers has represented Washington’s 5th congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Cathy McMorris Rodgers:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2005-2010
U.S. RepresentativeWashington’s 5th
(was preceeded by George Nethercutt)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordCathy McMorris Rodgers missed 273 (7%) 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 McMorris Rodgers in 2007-2008 was $15,550 from employees of Avista Corp. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’s net worth was between $934,027 and $2,626,999 in 2007, according to McMorris Rodgers’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for McMorris Rodgers.

Committee Membership

Cathy McMorris Rodgers sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of McMorris Rodgers’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3656: 21 Act
H.Res. 539: Commending Sonora Smart Dodd for her contribution in recognizing the importance of Father's Day and recognizing the important role fathers play in our families.
H.Res. 621: Ensuring access to affordable and quality health care without increasing the Federal budget or contributing to market inflation while providing greater choices for patient-focused care for individuals and families.
H.Res. 683: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the House should move forward with health care reform legislation, and costs can be contained through prevention and wellness initiatives that empower parents, families, and communities toward better health.
H.R. 3197: Kids With Healthy Hearts Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.