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Rep. Bill Cassidy [R-LA6]
U.S. Representative, Louisiana’s 6th District

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State:Louisiana [map]
District:6th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican

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

Congressional Service

Bill Cassidy has represented Louisiana’s 6th congressional district since 2009.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Bill Cassidy:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2009-2010
U.S. RepresentativeLouisiana’s 6th
(was preceeded by Donald Cazayoux)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordBill Cassidy missed 45 (5%) 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 Cassidy in 2007-2008 was $28,800 from employees of Cajun Industries. Bill Cassidy’s net worth was between $582,110 and $3,085,998 in 2007, according to Cassidy’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Cassidy.

Committee Membership

Bill Cassidy sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Photo from the Congresspedia.