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John Thune

Headshot b. 1961-01-07 , Pierre, SD
represents SD
Republican,
Official website

Education: MBA, University of South Dakota, 1984 BS, Biola University, 1983.

Last elected in 2004 receiving 197,848 (51.0%) votes.

Money

Raised $2,103,730 (#56)
Spent 42% (#412)
From self 0% (#26)
From individuals 77% (#35)
From PACs 9% (#509)

Earmarks

Requested 56 (#101)
Total cost $246,444,000 (#78)
Received 55 (#98)
Total cost $206,305,378 (#70)
Data for fiscal year 2008

Bills

Co-sponsored 273 (#481)
Introduced 46 (#312)
Debated 9 (#203)
Enacted 4 (#160)

Speeches

Spoke 15 times (#79)
Avg. length 980 words (#192)
Data for 110th Congress

Voting Analysis

Ideology 46% right-wing (#149)
Predictable 90% (#393)
Unpredictable equals maverick

Interest Group Alignment

GroupAgreement
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 40% (2/5 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 Project Vote Smart. Some campaign finance information from Open Secrets.

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Also known as: 400546 (GovTrack), N00004572 (OpenSecrets), T000250 (Congressional Bio), 29754 (ICPSR), 398 (Vote Smart), S2SD00068 (FEC)