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Jon Tester

Headshot represents MT
Democrat,
Official website

Education: BS, Music, University of Great Falls, 1978.

Last elected in 2006 receiving 199,845 (49.0%) votes.

Money

Raised $185,652 (#506)
Spent 90% (#110)
From self 0% (#26)
From individuals 28% (#465)
From PACs 66% (#56)

Earmarks

Requested 93 (#61)
Total cost $428,268,400 (#62)
Received 84 (#65)
Total cost $212,404,880 (#67)
Data for fiscal year 2008

Bills

Co-sponsored 192 (#510)
Introduced 17 (#445)
Debated 2 (#421)
Enacted 0 (#435)

Speeches

Spoke 6 times (#218)
Avg. length 760 words (#308)
Data for 110th Congress

Voting Analysis

Ideology 36% left-wing (#341)
Predictable 92% (#301)
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 Congressional Biographical Directory. Some campaign finance information from Open Secrets.

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Also known as: 412244 (GovTrack), N00027605 (OpenSecrets), T000464 (Congressional Bio), 40702 (ICPSR), 20928 (Vote Smart), S6MT00162 (FEC)