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Nancy Boyda
Former U.S. Representative from Kansas’s 2nd District , 2007-2009 (Democrat)

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Birthday:Aug 2, 1955

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Nancy Boyda:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2009
U.S. RepresentativeKansas’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Jim Ryun)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Leader-Follower Score"
Boyda is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Boyda sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Boyda’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordNancy Boyda missed 34 (2%) of 1876 votes between Jan 4, 2007. and Dec 10, 2008. 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 Boyda in 2007-2008 was $18,000 from employees of Sheet Metal Workers Union. Nancy Boyda’s net worth was between $1,510,019 and $3,559,998 in 2007, according to Boyda’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Boyda.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Nancy Boyda has sponsored 13 bills between Jan 4, 2007. and Oct 3, 2008 of which 9 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Boyda has co-sponsored 336 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Boyda 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.)

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Photo from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.