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Ed Perlmutter

Headshot represents CO-07
Democrat,
Official website

Education: JD, University of Colorado School of Law, 1978 BA, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1975.

Last elected in 2006 receiving 103,918 (55.0%) votes.

Money

Raised $1,149,368 (#131)
Spent 45% (#395)
From self 0% (#26)
From individuals 54% (#223)
From PACs 43% (#259)

Earmarks

Requested 23 (#262)
Total cost $125,874,625 (#125)
Received 22 (#259)
Total cost $65,172,825 (#141)
Data for fiscal year 2008

Bills

Co-sponsored 225 (#496)
Introduced 12 (#483)
Debated 4 (#343)
Enacted 1 (#333)

Speeches

Spoke 3 times (#351)
Avg. length 774 words (#298)
Data for 110th Congress

Voting Analysis

Ideology 31% left-wing (#312)
Predictable 95% (#179)
Unpredictable equals maverick

Interest Group Alignment

GroupAgreement
American Nurses Association 100% (5/5 votes)
AFL-CIO 100% (11/11 votes)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 100% (6/6 votes)
NAACP 100% (7/7 votes)
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 80% (4/5 votes)
National Association of Realtors 75% (6/8 votes)
Public Citizen 75% (6/8 votes)
Mortgage Bankers Association 66% (4/6 votes)
National Association of Home Builders 50% (3/6 votes)
National Retail Federation 20% (1/5 votes)
US Chamber of Commerce 16% (1/6 votes)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 14% (2/14 votes)

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Money data from the FEC. Politician information from Project Vote Smart, Wikipedia, and GovTrack. Earmark information from Taxpayers for Common Sense. Interest group alignment from MAPLight.org. Ideology and predictability from VoteView. Photo from Congressional Biographical Directory. Some campaign finance information from Open Secrets.

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Also known as: 412192 (GovTrack), N00027510 (OpenSecrets), P000593 (Congressional Bio), 20705 (ICPSR), 2653 (Vote Smart), H6CO07023 (FEC)