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Rep. Walter Minnick [D-ID1]
U.S. Representative, Idaho’s 1st District

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State:Idaho [map]
District:1st Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Sep 20, 1942 / 67 years old

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

Congressional Service

Walter Minnick has represented Idaho’s 1st congressional district since 2009.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Walter Minnick:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2009-2010
U.S. RepresentativeIdaho’s 1st
(was preceeded by Bill Sali)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordWalter Minnick missed 11 (1%) 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 Minnick in 2007-2008 was $42,450 from employees of ActBlue. Walter Minnick’s net worth was between $-1,218,984 and $16,515,998 in 2007, according to Minnick’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Minnick.

Committee Membership

Walter Minnick sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Walter Minnick has sponsored 7 bills since Jan 6, 2009 of which 6 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Minnick has co-sponsored 135 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Minnick 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 Minnick’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Res. 879: Supporting the goals and ideals of American Education Week.
H.Con.Res. 151: Expressing the sense of Congress that China release democratic activist Liu Xiaobo from imprisonment.
H.R. 4073: Rural Veterans Reimbursement Act
H.R. 4072: AMERICA Works Act
H.R. 1731: Credit Risk Retention Act of 2009

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Office of Walter Minnick.