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Lynn A. Westmoreland

Headshot b. 1950-04-02 , Atlanta, GA
represents GA-03
Republican,
Official website

Education: Diploma, Therrel High School, 1968.

Last elected in 2006 receiving 130,428 (68.0%) votes.

Money

Raised $409,347 (#423)
Spent 87% (#126)
From self 0% (#26)
From individuals 56% (#204)
From PACs 42% (#265)

Earmarks

Requested 12 (#434)
Total cost $7,579,000 (#462)
Received 11 (#436)
Total cost $4,976,000 (#478)
Data for fiscal year 2008

Bills

Co-sponsored 375 (#445)
Introduced 3 (#531)
Debated 2 (#421)
Enacted 1 (#333)

Speeches

Spoke 10 times (#143)
Avg. length 700 words (#343)
Data for 110th Congress

Voting Analysis

Ideology 81% right-wing (#16)
Predictable 95% (#186)
Unpredictable equals maverick

Interest Group Alignment

GroupAgreement
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 85% (12/14 votes)
US Chamber of Commerce 83% (5/6 votes)
National Retail Federation 60% (3/5 votes)
National Association of Home Builders 57% (4/7 votes)
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 42% (3/7 votes)
Public Citizen 40% (4/10 votes)
Mortgage Bankers Association 33% (2/6 votes)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 16% (1/6 votes)
NAACP 14% (1/7 votes)
AFL-CIO 7% (1/13 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: 400627 (GovTrack), N00026163 (OpenSecrets), W000796 (Congressional Bio), 20506 (ICPSR), 8001 (Vote Smart), H4GA08067 (FEC)