Rep. James “Jim” Kolbe
Former Representative from Arizona’s 8th District
Republican>
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | State / District |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | Arizona's 8th District | |
| Representative | Arizona's 5th District |
See Also: Kolbe's Official Website | OpenSecrets | Bioguide
Sponsorship Analysis
Kolbe was a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Kolbe’s time serving in the House of Representatives. Kolbe’s bills had a total of 160 cosponsors in the 109th Congress.
Use this chart to compare Kolbe to other members of the House of Representatives in the 109th Congress on leadership and ideology.
This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.
Bills Sponsored
Some of Kolbe’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 6332 (109th): Sandra Day O’Connor and William H. Rehnquist Law Centers Establishment Act of ...
- H.R. 6321 (109th): To provide for the conveyance of certain public land near the City ...
- H.R. 5898 (109th): Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2006
- H.R. 5818 (109th): Currency Overhaul for an Industrious Nation (COIN) Act
- H.R. 5651 (109th): Fort Bowie National Historic Site Boundary Revision Act of 2006
- H.R. 5522 (109th): Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2007
- H.R. 5460 (109th): Sierra Vista Subwatershed Feasibility Study Authorization Act
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Voting Record
From Jan 1985 to Dec 2006, Kolbe missed 304 of 11,953 roll call votes, which is 2.5%. This is better than the median of 2.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2006. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills