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Rep. Dave Reichert [R-WA8]
U.S. Representative, Washington’s 8^th District

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Washington [map]
District:	8^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Aug 29, 1950 / 59 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed

“Dave Reichert Addresses Department of Defense on Fairness in the Tanker Contract” - Nov 19, 2009 3:33 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 11-07-09 03 0:07:00 to 0:08:05 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Dave Reichert has represented Washington’s 8^th congressional district since 2005.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Dave Reichert:

When	Role	Representing
2005-2010	U.S. Representative	Washington’s 8^th	(was preceeded by Jennifer Dunn)

Sponsorship Analysis

Reichert 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Dave Reichert missed 67 (2%) 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 Reichert in 2007-2008 was $48,200 from employees of Microsoft Corp. Dave Reichert’s net worth was between $193,010 and $595,000 in 2007, according to Reichert’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Reichert.

Committee Membership

Dave Reichert sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Ways and Means

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Dave Reichert has sponsored 35 bills since Jan 4, 2005 of which 31 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Reichert has co-sponsored 406 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Reichert 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 Reichert’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 3758: Teacher Tax Relief Act of 2009
	H.Con.Res. 177: Raising the awareness of the need for crime prevention in communities across the country and expressing support for designation of October 1, 2009, through October 3, 2009, as "Celebrate Safe Communities" Week, and October as "Crime Prevention Month".
	H.Res. 874: Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require all committees post record votes on their Web sites within 48 hours of such votes.
	H.R. 1769: Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act
	H.Res. 702: Directing the Comptroller General of the United States to submit reports ensuring the effectiveness of Federal programs and amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that certain standing committees of the House hold at least one hearing on each such report that falls within their jurisdiction.

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