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Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT3]
U.S. Representative, Utah’s 3rd District

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State:Utah [map]
District:3rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican
Birthday:Mar 26, 1967 / 42 years old

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

Chaffetz’s latest tweet:http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_13835620 Regarding the importation of foreign nuclear waste..(Nov 21, 2009)

Congressional Service

Jason Chaffetz has represented Utah’s 3rd congressional district since 2009.

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
2009-2010
U.S. RepresentativeUtah’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Christopher Cannon)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Chaffetz 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"
Chaffetz is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Chaffetz sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Chaffetz’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Chaffetz's bills without Chaffetz 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 Chaffetz missed 2 (0%) 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 Chaffetz in 2007-2008 was $16,700 from employees of Nu Skin Enterprises. Jason Chaffetz’s net worth was between $224,018 and $1,412,999 in 2007, according to Chaffetz’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Chaffetz.

Committee Membership

Jason Chaffetz sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship