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Rep. Phil Hare [D-IL17]
U.S. Representative, Illinois’s 17th District

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State:Illinois [map]
District:17th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Feb 21, 1949 / 60 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Phil Hare has represented Illinois’s 17th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Phil Hare:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativeIllinois’s 17th
(was preceeded by Lane Evans)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordPhil Hare missed 33 (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.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Hare in 2007-2008 was $15,000 from employees of Ironworkers Union. Phil Hare’s net worth was between $-150,000 and $-65,002 in 2007, according to Hare’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Hare.

Committee Membership

Phil Hare sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Phil Hare has sponsored 22 bills since Jan 4, 2007 of which 18 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Hare has co-sponsored 782 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Hare 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 Hare’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3720: To direct the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate a rule to improve the daytime and nighttime visibility of agricultural equipment that may be operated on a public road.
H.R. 4069: S Corporation Inventory Contribution Act of 2009
H.R. 2597: Positive Behavior for Safe and Effective Schools Act
H.R. 2559: Help Our Homeless Veterans Act
H.R. 1302: To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the position of Director of Physician Assistant Services within the office of the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health.

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Photo from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.