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Rep. Dean Heller [R-NV2]
U.S. Representative, Nevada’s 2nd District

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State:Nevada [map]
District:2nd Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:May 10, 1960 / 49 years old

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Dean Heller has represented Nevada’s 2nd congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Dean Heller:

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

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Heller 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.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Heller is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Heller’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordDean Heller missed 59 (2%) 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 Heller in 2007-2008 was $31,900 from employees of MGM Mirage. Dean Heller’s net worth was between $2,354,917 and $2,729,904 in 2007, according to Heller’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Heller.

Committee Membership

Dean Heller sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.