Person's Page Views

This Week: 49   All-Time: 1147

Rep. Melvin Watt

3 Comments

Average Rating

(rate this)

My Rating: Login to Rate
Term Start Term End Role    State  Party 
2007 2008 Representative NC Democrat
See All 8 Terms

Most Recent Sponsored Bills

Sponsored Bill Statistics


Recent Voting History

The votes below were taken by roll call, a voting procedure that records a vote from every Senator or Representative on the bill under consideration. This Member of Congress may have voted on other bills by the process known as "voice vote", but these votes are not recorded.

Voting Trends Analysis

The information below is an initial analysis of voting trends for this Member of Congress, calculated by cross-referencing all of this member's votes from the current 110th Congress (Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2009). The results are intended to offer some helpful context for the place that this Member of Congress occupies in the Congressional landscape. In the next steps of site development, OpenCongress will incorporate more detailed analyses of voting trends to give you a comprehensive snapshot of every Member of Congress.

Users tracking Melvin Watt (5) are also tracking:

People Bills Issues
  • H.R.226 H.R.226 [1]
  • H.R.2642 Military Construction and Veterans Affair... [1]
  • H.R.5715 Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loan... [1]
  • H.R.5749 Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensat... [1]
  • H.R.4987 Fence By Date Certain Act [1]

Melvin Watt in the News feed

June 16, 2008 Rep. Melvin Watt Visits HPU Campus

HIGH POINT, NC, June 16, 2008 - High Point University hosted the 12th Congressional District Grant Conference on June 16. The event, sponsored by the Office ...

Was this article useful? Yes or No

Source: High Point University, NC


May 09, 2008 CNN's Blitzer, on-screen text misled on cost of housing bill

During debate on the issue, Rep. Melvin Watt (D-NC) stated, "The bill explicitly says that this is limited to homeowners, not people who have been ...

Was this article useful? Yes or No

Source: Media Matters for America, DC


May 06, 2008 CQ Politics Forecasts a Slim Obama Victory in NC Delegates

... population in North Carolina; 45 percent of the district’s residents are black and the district’s congressman, Rep. Melvin Watt , has endorsed Obama. ...

Was this article useful? Yes or No

Source: CQPolitics.com, DC


70 more articles...
See most useful news articles

Melvin Watt in the Blogs feed

June 28, 2008 House combines bankruptcy bill with protections for farmers

“This is an effort to find someone to blame for the failure to pass the bankruptcy legislation,” said Rep. Melvin Watt, DN.C. “We’re doing this little exercise to expedite going to conference with the Senate, and I don’t think itâ

Was this article useful? Yes or No

Source: South Dakota Attorney Lawyer


June 16, 2008 Rep. Melvin Watt Visits HPU Campus

The event, sponsored by the Office of House Representative Melvin L. Watt, was held to provide information on the programs offered by federal agencies, the application process, and tools for locating and researching federal funding ...

Was this article useful? Yes or No

Source: High Point University Headlines


June 11, 2008 To which I responded

Representative Melvin Watt, (DN.C.), who is black, interrupted and demanded that Cubin retract the statement. Cubin said that she did not mean to offend her "neighbors" on the Democratic side, and maintained that her comment was within ...

Was this article useful? Yes or No

Source: Red White and New


237 more posts...
See most useful blog posts

Information made available by:

Technorati

Campaign Contributions

The data below comes from OpenSecrets.org, the website of the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, a group that tracks money in politics. You can create a "My OpenCongress" account to track this Member easily on your profile and share this info with friends.
Select Election Cycle:
Top Funding Industry: Finance/Insur/RealEst
Top Contributor: Bank of America ($7,500)
IndustryDonation% of total
Finance/Insur/RealEst $34,750 18.0 %
Other $29,650 15.4 %
Lawyers & Lobbyists $27,450 14.2 %
Health $20,500 10.6 %
Misc Business $20,000 10.4 %
Communic/Electronics $16,104 8.4 %
Labor $13,500 7.0 %
Construction $9,700 5.0 %
Ideology/Single-Issue $7,535 3.9 %
Energy/Nat Resource $5,500 2.9 %
Agribusiness $4,500 2.3 %
Defense $3,000 1.6 %
Transportation $500 0.3 %
Total:$192,689

See more campaign contribution data by visiting Melvin Watt's profile on OpenSecrets

OpenCongress is a joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation. Questions? Comments? Contact Us

Data made available by:

Govtrack.US

Help Open Up Congress:

The OpenHouse Project