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Sen. Robert Casey, Jr. [D-PA]
U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania

Photo of Casey
State:Pennsylvania [map]
Party:Democrat

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

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Robert Casey:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2007-2012U.S. SenatorPennsylvania
(was preceeded by Richard Santorum)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordRobert Casey missed 0 (0%) of 1005 votes since Jan 8, 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 Casey in 2007-2008 was $93,575 from employees of Blank Rome LLP. Robert Casey’s net worth was between $166,012 and $496,000 in 2007, according to Casey’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Casey.

Committee Membership

Robert Casey sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Office of Senator Casey.