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Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA2]
U.S. Representative, Iowa’s 2nd District

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State:Iowa [map]
District:2nd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Dec 23, 1952 / 57 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

David Loebsack has represented Iowa’s 2nd congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by David Loebsack:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativeIowa’s 2nd
(was preceeded by James Leach)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordDavid Loebsack missed 86 (3%) of 2915 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 Loebsack in 2007-2008 was $85,150 from employees of ActBlue. David Loebsack’s net worth was between $362,018 and $1,056,000 in 2007, according to Loebsack’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Loebsack.

Committee Membership

David Loebsack sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.