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Rep. William (Bill) Shuster, Jr. [R-PA9]
U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania’s 9th District

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State:Pennsylvania [map]
District:9th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Jan 10, 1960 / 49 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“Shuster interview on WJAC on healthcare” - Nov 6, 2009 6:15 PM. Watch Video.

Congressional Service

William Shuster has represented Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district since 2001.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by William Shuster:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2001-2010
U.S. RepresentativePennsylvania’s 9th
(was preceeded by Bill Shuster)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordWilliam Shuster missed 131 (2%) of 6080 votes since May 17, 2001. 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 Shuster in 2007-2008 was $15,600 from employees of New Enterprise Stone & Lime. William Shuster’s net worth was between $492,029 and $1,359,000 in 2007, according to Shuster’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Shuster.

Committee Membership

William Shuster sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

William Shuster has sponsored 29 bills since Jan 3, 2001 of which 24 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Shuster has co-sponsored 647 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Shuster 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 Shuster’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 795: Honoring the people of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Flight 93 Ambassadors for their efforts in creating the Flight 93 temporary memorial and encouraging the completion of the National Park Service Flight 93 National Memorial by the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001.
H.R. 1317: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to individuals who pay their mortgages on time.
H.R. 1451: To amend title 23, United States Code, to allow an exception for the weight limits for certain towing trucks.
H.R. 1421: Nino's Act
H.R. 1135: Bus Uniform Standards and Enhanced Safety Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.