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Rep. Jason Altmire [D-PA4]
U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania’s 4th District

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State:Pennsylvania [map]
District:4th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Mar 7, 1968 / 41 years old

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

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“Altmire Continues Efforts to Make Roads Safer for Older Drivers” - Oct 7, 2009 5:56 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Jason Altmire has represented Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district since 2007.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Jason Altmire:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2010
U.S. RepresentativePennsylvania’s 4th
(was preceeded by Melissa Hart)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordJason Altmire missed 0 (0%) 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 Altmire in 2007-2008 was $42,750 from employees of UPMC Health System. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Altmire.

Committee Membership

Jason Altmire sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Jason Altmire has sponsored 32 bills since Jan 4, 2007 of which 26 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Altmire has co-sponsored 554 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Altmire 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.)

Some of Altmire’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3621: Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act
H.R. 1776: Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2009
H.R. 1699: Patient Access to Critical Lab Tests Act
H.Res. 503: Recognizing National Physical Education and Sport Week, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3355: Older Driver and Pedestrian Safety and Roadway Enhancement Act of 2009

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.