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Rep. Anh (Joseph) Cao [R-LA2]
U.S. Representative, Louisiana’s 2nd District

Photo of Cao
State:Louisiana [map]
District:2nd Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican

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

Congressional Service

Anh Cao has represented Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district since 2009.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Anh Cao:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2009-2010
U.S. RepresentativeLouisiana’s 2nd
(was preceeded by William Jefferson)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordAnh Cao missed 62 (7%) of 895 votes since Jan 6, 2009. 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 Cao in 2007-2008 was $5,000 from employees of American Bankers Assn. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Cao.

Committee Membership

Anh Cao sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Office of Anh Cao.