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Rep. Harry Teague [D-NM2]
U.S. Representative, New Mexico’s 2nd District

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State:New Mexico [map]
District:2nd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jun 29, 1949 / 60 years old

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

Congressional Service

Harry Teague has represented New Mexico’s 2nd congressional district since 2009.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Harry Teague:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2009-2010
U.S. RepresentativeNew Mexico’s 2nd
(was preceeded by Steven Pearce)

Sponsorship Analysis

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

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordHarry Teague missed 18 (2%) 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.

Committee Membership

Harry Teague sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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

H.R. 3561: To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of educational assistance provided to certain veterans for flight training.
H.R. 3906: To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs program to provide financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing.
H.R. 2337: Southwestern Transit Corridor Planning and Fuel Use Reduction Act
H.R. 2505: Reaching Rural Veterans through Telehealth Act
H.R. 2504: To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase in the annual amount authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out comprehensive service programs for homeless veterans.

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