Michael Doyle (Pennsylvania Congress)

Michael F. Doyle
U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 14
Incumbent
In office
1995-Present
Term ends
January 3, 2015
Years in position	18
Party	Democratic
Predecessor	William J. Coyne (D)
Compensation
Base salary	$174,000/year
Elections and appointments
Last election	November 6, 2012
First elected	November 6, 1994
Next election	November 4, 2014
Campaign $	$5,259,092
Term limits	N/A
Prior offices
Council Member, Swissvale Borough Council
1977-1981
Education
Bachelor's	Pennsylvania State University, 1975
Personal
Birthday	August 5, 1953
Place of birth	Pittsburgh, PA
Net worth	$175,000
Religion	Roman Catholic
Websites
Office website
Campaign website

Michael F. Doyle (b. August 5, 1953) is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Pennsylvania. Doyle was first elected in 1994. He ran for re-election in 2012 and won.

Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack, Doyle is a "rank-and-file Democrat".

Career

• 1975: Graduated from Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa.
• 1977-1981: Served as a member of the Swissvale, Pa., Borough Council
• 1979-1994: Chief of staff to Pennsylvania state senator Frank Pecora
• 1995-Present: U.S Representative from Pennsylvania

Committee assignments

U.S. House

2013-2014

Doyle serves on the following committees:

• Committee on Energy and Commerce
  • Subcommittee on Energy and Power
  • Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

2011-2012

• Energy and Commerce
  • Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Energy and Power

Issues

Specific votes

Fiscal Cliff

Doyle voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. He was one of 172 Democrats that voted in favor of the bill. The bill was passed in the House by a 257/167 vote on January 1, 2013.

Elections

2012

See also: Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district elections, 2012

Doyle ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House, representing Pennsylvania's 14th District. He defeated Janis Brooks in the April 24, 2012 Democratic Primary and faced Hans Lessmann (R) in the November 6, 2012 general election.

The Washington Post listed the House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania in 2012 as one of the states that could determine whether Democrats would retake the House or Republicans would hold their majority in 2013. Ohio tied with Pennsylvania for 9th on the list.

U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 14 General Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Michael F. Doyle Incumbent	76.9%	251,932
	Republican	Hans Lessmann	23.1%	75,702
Total Votes				327,634
Source: Pennsylvania Department of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election"

U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania-District 14 Democratic Primary, 2012
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Michael F. Doyle Incumbent	80.1%	50,323
Janis Brooks	19.9%	12,484
Total Votes		62,807

Full history

To view the full congressional electoral history for Michael F. Doyle, click [show] to expand the section.

2010 On November 2, 2010, Michael Doyle won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Michael Haluszczak (R) and Ed Bortz (Green) in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 14 General Election, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle incumbent 68.8% 122,073      Republican Melissa Haluszczak 28.2% 49,997      Green Ed Bortz 3% 5,400 Total Votes 177,470 2008 On November 4, 2008, Michael Doyle won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Titus North (Green) in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 14 General Election, 2008 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle incumbent 91.3% 242,326      Green Titus North 8.7% 23,214 Total Votes 265,540 2006 On November 7, 2006, Michael Doyle won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Titus North (Green) in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 14 General Election, 2006 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle incumbent 89.8% 161,075      Green Titus North 9.9% 17,720      N/A Write-in 0.3% 606 Total Votes 179,401 2004 On November 2, 2004, Michael Doyle won re-election to the United States House. He ran unopposed in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 14 General Election, 2004 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle incumbent 100% 220,139 Total Votes 220,139 2002 On November 5, 2002, Michael Doyle won re-election to the United States House. He defeated various write-in candidates in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 14 General Election, 2002 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle incumbent 99.9% 123,323      N/A Write-in 0.1% 89 Total Votes 123,412 2000 On November 7, 2000, Michael Doyle won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Craig C. Stephens in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 18 General Election, 2000 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle incumbent 69.4% 156,131      Republican Craig C. Stephens 30.6% 68,798 Total Votes 224,929 1998 On November 3, 1998, Michael Doyle won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Dick Walker (R) and various write-in candidates in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 18 General Election, 1998 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle incumbent 67.7% 98,363      Republican Dick Walker 32.3% 46,945      N/A Write-in 0% 29 Total Votes 145,337 1996 On November 5, 1996, Michael Doyle won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Davis B. Fawcett (R), Richard Edward Caligiuri (I), Ralph A. Emmerich (Natural Law) and various write-in candidates in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 18 General Election, 1996 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle incumbent 56% 120,410      Republican David B. Fawcett 40.4% 86,829      Independent Richard Edward Caligiuri 3.2% 6,859      Natural Law Ralph A. Emmerich 0.4% 883      Write-in N/A 0% 9 Total Votes 214,990 1994 On November 8, 1994, Michael Doyle won election to the United States House. He defeated John McCarty (R) and various write-in candidates in the general election. U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 18 General Election, 1994 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Democratic Michael F. Doyle 54.8% 101,784      Republican John McCarty 45.2% 83,881      Write-in N/A 0% 85 Total Votes 185,750

Campaign donors

Comprehensive donor information for Doyle is available dating back to 2000. Based on available campaign finance records, Doyle raised a total of $5,259,092 during that time period. This information was last updated on April 18, 2013.

Michael Doyle (Pennsylvania Congress)'s Campaign Contribution History
Year	Office	Result	Contributions
2012	US House (Pennsylvania, District 14)		$870,614
2010	US House (Pennsylvania, District 14)		$726,537
2008	US House (Pennsylvania, District 14)		$915,671
2006	US House (Pennsylvania, District 14)		$923,775
2004	US House (Pennsylvania, District 14)		$670,111
2002	US House (Pennsylvania, District 14)		$674,812
2000	US House (Pennsylvania, District 18)		$477,572
Grand Total Raised			$5,259,092

2012

Breakdown of the source of Doyle's campaign funds before the 2012 election.

Doyle won re-election to the U.S. House in 2012. During that election cycle, his campaign committee raised a total of $870,614 and spent $757,648.

U.S. House, Pennsylvania, 2012 - Michael Doyle (Pennsylvania Congress) Campaign Contributions
Total Raised	$870,614
Total Spent	$757,648
Total Raised by Election Runner-up	$38,920
Total Spent by Election Runner-up	$32,719
Top contributors to Michael Doyle (Pennsylvania Congress)'s campaign committee
Acusis LLC	$10,000
Communications Workers of America	$10,000
Endo Pharmaceuticals	$10,000
Exelon Corp	$10,000
FirstEnergy Corp	$10,000
Top 5 industries that contributed to campaign committee
Electric Utilities	$75,500
Industrial Unions	$59,000
Building Trade Unions	$50,000
TV/Movies/Music	$38,350
Lawyers/Law Firms	$37,800

2010

Doyle won re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. During that re-election cycle, Doyle's campaign committee raised a total of $726,537 and spent $953,031.

His top 5 contributors between 2009-2010 were:

U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania Congressional District Election, 2010 - Michael Doyle (Pennsylvania Congress) Campaign Contributions
Total Raised	$726,537
Total Spent	$953,031
Total Raised by General Election Opponent	$61,137
Total Spent by General Election Opponent	$57,171
Top contributors to Michael Doyle (Pennsylvania Congress)'s campaign committee
American Assn for Justice	$10,000
Carpenters & Joiners Union	$10,000
Comcast Corp	$10,000
Exelon Corp	$10,000
National Auto Dealers Assn	$10,000
Top 5 industries that contributed to campaign committee
Electric Utilities	$75,000
Building Trade Unions	$47,500
Lawyers/Law Firms	$42,144
Industrial Unions	$38,500
Public Sector Unions	$30,500

Analysis

Lifetime voting record

See also: Lifetime voting records of United States Senators and Representatives

According to the website GovTrack, Doyle missed 516 of 12,417 roll call votes from January 1995 to April 2013. This amounts to 4.2%, which is worse than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving as of April 2013.

Congressional staff salaries

See also: Staff salaries of United States Senators and Representatives

The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. Doyle paid his congressional staff a total of $992,315 in 2011. Overall, Pennsylvania ranked 34th in average salary for representative staff. The average U.S. House of Representatives congressional staff was paid $954,912.20 in fiscal year 2011.

Net worth

See also: Net Worth of United States Senators and Representatives

2011

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org - The Center for Responsive Politics, Doyle's net worth as of 2011 was estimated between $15,003 and $334,998. That averages to $175,000, which is significantly lower than the average net worth of Democratic Representatives in 2011 of $5,107,874. His average net worth did not change from 2010.

2010

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org - The Center for Responsive Politics, Doyle's net worth as of 2010 was estimated between $15,003 to $334,998. That averages to $175,000.50 which was lower than the average net worth of Democratic Representatives in 2010 of $4,465,875.

National Journal vote ratings

See also: National Journal vote ratings

2012

Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of congress voted in the previous year. In 2012, Doyle ranked 59th among Democratic Representatives in the liberal rankings.

2011

Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of congress voted in the previous year. In 2011, Doyle was ranked 63rd among Democratic members of the U.S. House in the liberal rankings.

Percentage voting with party

The website Open Congress tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus. According to the website, Michael F. Doyle voted with the Democratic Party 93.5% of the time, which ranked 62 among the 192 House Democratic members in December 2011.

Recent news

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All stories may not be relevant to this page due to the nature of the search engine.

Michael Doyle News Feed

• Groundhog Day in the House: A Gift to Republican Freshmen, and Possibly ... - TIME (blog)
• House Votes to Repeal ObamaCare, Again - The New American
• Democrats accuse Republicans of distorting intent of spectrum law - The Hill (blog)
• Why Barack Obama's imperial presidency is imploding - Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
• Funding transportation - Tribune-Review
• Ahane's Dan Morrissey pictured during last weekend's Limerick SHC clash with ... - Limerick Leader
• Obama, lawmakers tackle military sexual assault - MiamiHerald.com
• Those crazy, lone-wolf, low level IRS employees - American Thinker (blog)
• House bill introduced to require VA reporting of Legionnaires' and other ... - Tribune-Review
• Perfect Colorless Diamond Auctioned For Record $23.5 Million - Huffington Post

Personal

Doyle is married to Susan. They have 4 children.

External links

• Biographies:
  • U.S. Congress
• Political profiles:
  • GovTrack
  • OpenCongress
  • Project Vote Smart
  • CongressMerge
• Financial:
  • FEC
  • OpenSecrets.org
  • LegiStorm.com
• Interest group ratings:
  • Project Vote Smart
• Issue positions:
  • On The Issues
  • Project Vote Smart
• Public statements:
  • Project Vote Smart
• Voting record:
  • Project Vote Smart
  • Washington Post
• Media appearances:
  • C-SPAN

References

Political offices
Preceded by William J. Coyne	U.S. House of Representatives - Pennsylvania District 14 2003–present	Succeeded by -
Preceded by Rick Santorum	U.S. House of Representatives - Pennsylvania District 18 1995–2003	Succeeded by Tim Murphy