Rep. Peter Roskam [R-IL6]
U.S. Representative, Illinois’s 6^th District

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Illinois [map]
District:	6^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Sep 13, 1961 / 48 years old

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

Roskam’s latest tweet:

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“Looking forward to it! RT @NewsHour Tonight: @pbsgwen interviews @PeterRoskam re the President's economic initiatives. #tcot #gop #npr #p2.” (Sep 8, 2010)

Official YouTube Feed

“Obama's New "Double Dip" Stimulus Not The Answer” - Sep 8, 2010 8:42 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch House proceeding 04-14-10 3:04:45 to 3:06:40 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Elected Positions

Peter Roskam has represented Illinois’s 6^th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Peter Roskam:

When	Role	Representing
2007-2010	U.S. Representative	Illinois’s 6^th
	(was preceeded by Henry Hyde)

Sponsorship Analysis

Roskam 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Peter Roskam missed 82 (2%) of 3,385 roll call 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.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Roskam in 2007-2008 was $18,100 from employees of Morey Corp. Peter Roskam’s net worth was between $713,028 and $1,970,000 in 2007, according to Roskam’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Roskam.

Committee Membership

Peter Roskam sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Ways and Means

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Peter Roskam has sponsored 20 bills since Jan 4, 2007 of which 19 haven't made it out of committee and none were successfully enacted. Roskam has co-sponsored 298 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Roskam 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 Roskam’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 459: Expressing support for designation of "National Safety Month".
	H.R. 5274: To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the requirements for verifying a small business concern owned and controlled by a veteran.
	H.Res. 1497: Condemning the inclusion of inflammatory and inaccurate content in Iranian textbooks that is aimed at indoctrinating and radicalizing students with anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, and anti-Western sentiment and at restricting the rights of women.
	H.R. 5546: To provide for the establishment of a fraud, waste, and abuse detection and mitigation program for the Medicare Program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act.
	H.Res. 513: Supporting the goals and purpose of Gold Star Mothers Day, which is observed on the last Sunday in September of each year in remembrance of the supreme sacrifice made by mothers who lose a son or daughter serving in the Armed Forces.

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Photo from the Office of Peter Roskam.

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