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Michael N. Castle

Headshot b. 1939-07-02 , Wilmington, DE
represents DE-00
Republican, Roman Catholic
Official website

Education: LLB, Georgetown University, 1964 BS, Economics, Hamilton College, 1961.

Last elected in 2006 receiving 143,897 (57.0%) votes.

Money

Raised $875,112 (#203)
Spent 59% (#300)
From self 0% (#26)
From individuals 45% (#316)
From PACs 44% (#239)

Earmarks

Requested 36 (#150)
Total cost $82,136,720 (#157)
Received 32 (#158)
Total cost $35,406,420 (#222)
Data for fiscal year 2008

Bills

Co-sponsored 913 (#283)
Introduced 225 (#41)
Debated 38 (#45)
Enacted 14 (#33)

Speeches

Spoke 8 times (#172)
Avg. length 964 words (#198)
Data for 110th Congress

Voting Analysis

Ideology 29% right-wing (#221)
Predictable 83% (#502)
Unpredictable equals maverick

Interest Group Alignment

GroupAgreement
American Nurses Association 100% (5/5 votes)
National Association of Home Builders 85% (6/7 votes)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 83% (5/6 votes)
National Association of Realtors 75% (6/8 votes)
NAACP 71% (5/7 votes)
Mortgage Bankers Association 66% (4/6 votes)
AFL-CIO 61% (8/13 votes)
Public Citizen 60% (6/10 votes)
National Retail Federation 60% (3/5 votes)
American Civil Liberties Union 40% (2/5 votes)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 35% (5/14 votes)
US Chamber of Commerce 33% (2/6 votes)
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 28% (2/7 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: 400070 (GovTrack), N00009775 (OpenSecrets), C000243 (Congressional Bio), 29327 (ICPSR), 26792 (Vote Smart), H2DE00072 (FEC)