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Rep. André Carson [D-IN7]
U.S. Representative, Indiana’s 7th District

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State:Indiana [map]
District:7th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Oct 16, 1974 / 35 years old

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

Congressional Service

André Carson has represented Indiana’s 7th congressional district since 2008.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by André Carson:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2008-2010
U.S. RepresentativeIndiana’s 7th
(was preceeded by Julia Carson)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordAndré Carson missed 30 (2%) of 1447 votes since Mar 13, 2008. 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 Carson in 2007-2008 was $48,100 from employees of ActBlue. André Carson’s net worth was between $-80,995 and $59,999 in 2007, according to Carson’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Carson.

Committee Membership

André Carson sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

H.R. 3966: To amend the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 to extend for 6 months the period of eligibility for COBRA premium assistance under such Act.
H.Res. 931: Supporting the goals and ideals of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
H.R. 3088: Jeremy Warriner Consumer Protection Act of 2009
H.R. 3053: To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal the denial to drug felons of eligibility for benefits under the program of temporary assistance for needy families.
H.R. 2648: To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Muhammad Ali in recognition of his contributions to the Nation.

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Photo from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.