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Rep. Mary Fallin [R-OK5]
U.S. Representative, Oklahoma’s 5th District

Photo of Fallin
State:Oklahoma [map]
District:5th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Dec 9, 1954 / 54 years old

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

Official YouTube Feed
“Oklahoma Values” - Mar 3, 2009 9:18 PM. Watch Video.
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Mary Fallin has represented Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Mary Fallin:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativeOklahoma’s 5th
(was preceeded by Ernest Istook)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordMary Fallin missed 30 (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 Fallin in 2007-2008 was $21,350 from employees of Chesapeake Energy. Mary Fallin’s net worth was between $19,005 and $110,000 in 2007, according to Fallin’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Fallin.

Committee Membership

Mary Fallin sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Office of Mary Fallin.