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Rep. Harry Mitchell [D-AZ5]
U.S. Representative, Arizona’s 5th District

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State:Arizona [map]
District:5th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jul 18, 1940 / 69 years old

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

Congressional Service

Harry Mitchell has represented Arizona’s 5th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Harry Mitchell:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativeArizona’s 5th
(was preceeded by John Hayworth)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Mitchell is a moderate Democrat 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"
Mitchell is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Mitchell’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordHarry Mitchell missed 32 (1%) of 2771 votes since Jan 4, 2007. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Committee Membership

Harry Mitchell sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Office of Harry Mitchell.