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Rep. Betty Sutton [D-OH13]
U.S. Representative, Ohio’s 13th District

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State:Ohio [map]
District:13th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Betty Sutton has represented Ohio’s 13th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Betty Sutton:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativeOhio’s 13th
(was preceeded by Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH])

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Sutton is a far-left 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"
Sutton is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Sutton sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Sutton’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordBetty Sutton missed 83 (3%) 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 Sutton in 2007-2008 was $12,600 from employees of FirstEnergy Corp. Betty Sutton’s net worth was between $242,025 and $805,000 in 2007, according to Sutton’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Sutton.

Committee Membership

Betty Sutton sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Office of Betty Sutton.