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Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME1]
U.S. Representative, Maine’s 1st District

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State:Maine [map]
District:1st Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Apr 2, 1955 / 54 years old

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

Congressional Service

Chellie Pingree has represented Maine’s 1st congressional district since 2009.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Chellie Pingree:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2009-2010
U.S. RepresentativeMaine’s 1st
(was preceeded by Thomas Allen)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordChellie Pingree missed 25 (3%) 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 Pingree in 2007-2008 was $653,657 from employees of ActBlue. Chellie Pingree’s net worth was between $-332,993 and $352,996 in 2007, according to Pingree’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Pingree.

Committee Membership

Chellie Pingree sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

H.Res. 875: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3854) to amend the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to improve programs providing access to capital under such Acts, and for other purposes.
H.Con.Res. 214: Providing for an adjournment or recess of the two Houses.
H.Res. 909: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3791) to amend sections 33 and 34 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974, and for other purposes.
H.Res. 400: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1728) to amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer mortgage practices and provide accountability for such practices, to provide certain minimum standards for consumer mortgage loans, and for other purposes.
H.Res. 463: Providing for consideration of the conference report to accompany the bill (S. 454) to improve the organization and procedures of the Department of Defense for the acquisition of major weapon systems, and for other purposes.

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