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Rep. Christopher Lee [R-NY26]
U.S. Representative, New York’s 26th District

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State:New York [map]
District:26th Congressional District [map]
Party:Republican

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

Congressional Service

Christopher Lee has represented New York’s 26th congressional district since 2009.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Christopher Lee:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2009-2010
U.S. RepresentativeNew York’s 26th
(was preceeded by Thomas Reynolds)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordChristopher Lee missed 12 (1%) of 1039 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 Lee in 2007-2008 was $16,900 from employees of Constellation Brands. Christopher Lee’s net worth was between $11,208,255 and $27,325,000 in 2007, according to Lee’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Lee.

Committee Membership

Christopher Lee sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Christopher Lee has sponsored 7 bills since Jan 6, 2009 of which 5 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Lee has co-sponsored 158 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Lee and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

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

H.R. 2664: Promoting Transparency in Financial Reporting Act of 2009
H.R. 4007: To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to 5 States to establish medical malpractice tribunal pilot programs, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1734: To require the Secretary of State to establish passport issuance agencies within 50 miles of all major international border crossings.
H.R. 1733: Passport Fee Relief Act of 2009
H.R. 1595: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3245 Latta Road in Rochester, New York, as the "Brian K. Schramm Post Office Building".

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