Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL15]
U.S. Representative, Florida’s 15^th District

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Bill Posey’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Florida [map]
District:	15^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Dec 18, 1947 / 62 years old

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Congressional Service

Bill Posey has represented Florida’s 15^th congressional district since 2009.

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

When	Role	Representing
2009-2010	U.S. Representative	Florida’s 15^th	(was preceeded by David Weldon)

Sponsorship Analysis

Posey 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.

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

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

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

Voting Record

Bill Posey missed 11 (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 Posey in 2007-2008 was $28,600 from employees of Asurion Corp. Bill Posey’s net worth was between $197,012 and $1,031,999 in 2007, according to Posey’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Posey.

Committee Membership

Bill Posey sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Financial Services

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

	H.Res. 819: Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for division of the question on the legislative proposals involved to allow separate votes on disparate matters.
	H.R. 3783: SEC Delinquent Judgment Collection Act
	H.Res. 792: Honoring Robert Kelly Slater for his outstanding and unprecedented achievements in the world of surfing and for being an ambassador of the sport and excellent role model.
	H.R. 1503: To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of President to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution.
	H.Res. 689: Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to ensure that Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner have a reasonable amount of time to read legislation that will be voted upon, and for other purposes.

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