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Dan Lungren
Dan Lungren (b. September 22, 1946) was a Republican member of the U.S. House representing California's 3rd Congressional District from 2005 to 2013.
Due to redistricting, Lungren ran for re-election in the 2012 election for the U.S. House, representing California's 7th District as a Republican. The open primary election took place on June 5, 2012.[1]
Lungren was defeated by challenger Ami Bera (D) in the 2012 U.S. House elections. The race was too close to call for more than one week after the election.[2][3]
Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack, Lungren was a "moderate Republican leader."[4]
Career
Below is an abbreviated outline of Lungren's academic, professional, and political career:[5]
- 1968: Graduated from Notre Dame University with B.A.
- 1971: Graduated from Georgetown University Law Center with J.D.
- 1977-1978: Cochairman, National Congressional Council
- 1979-1989: U.S. Representative from California
- 1991-1999: Attorney General of California
- 1998: Unsuccessful run for governor
- 2005-2013: U.S. Representative from California
Campaign themes
2012
Lungren's campaign website listed the following issues:[6]
- Job Creation
- Excerpt: "This country is facing what most economists consider to be the most serious and the most dangerous economic situation in our lifetime. Government must create policies that allow small and large businesses to put Californians to work and keep our economic engine moving."
- Federal Deficit
- Excerpt: "We must balance the budget in Washington—government consistently spends more than it has and the American people have made it clear they have no appetite for new taxes."
- Education
- Excerpt: "The first and most important role of government in providing an education is to guarantee a safe environment for our students. We must also ensure that our schools are held accountable, are held to the highest standards possible, and that we are giving local districts local control."
- Healthcare
- Excerpt: "Government health care rationing would be a catastrophe for the quality of health care in the United States. I believe we can look to proposals that would create healthcare associations allowing people to pool together to explore healthcare options within their state or even across state lines, rather than imposing a government-run option that reads like a one-size-fits-all approach."
- Flood Control
- Excerpt: "We need to create 500-year flood protection in the Sacramento area. Astoundingly, our region currently has roughly 85-year flood protection, and though I continue to support improvements to our levees and Folsom Dam, these improvements will only get us to near 250-year flood protection."
Specific votes
Fiscal Cliff
Lungren 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 1 of 85 Republicans that voted in favor of the bill. The bill was passed in the House by a 257 - 167 vote on January 1, 2013.[7]
Committee assignments
U.S. House
2011-2012
Lungren served on the following committees:[8]
- Homeland Security Committee
- Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies, Chair
- Subcommittee on Transportation Security
- House Administration Committee, Chair
- Judiciary Committee
- Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
- Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
Issues
House Judiciary Committee
In his former tenure in Congress, Lungren was appointed to the House Judiciary Committee in 2007.[9] The Congressman was re-appointed to the committee in 2009.[10]
Lungren served on the House Judiciary Subcommittees on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security and Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.[11][12]
Elections
2012
Due to redistricting, Lungren ran for re-election in the 2012 election for the U.S. House, representing California's 7th District as a Republican. He and Ami Bera (D) advanced past the blanket primary on June 5, 2012, defeating Douglas Arthur Tuma (L) and Curt Taras (Ind). Bera defeated Lungren in the general election on November 6, 2012.[13][14]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |  Ami Bera |
51.7% | 141,241 | |
| Republican | Dan Lungren Incumbent | 48.3% | 132,050 | |
| Total Votes | 273,291 | |||
| Source: California Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
|
Dan Lungren (R) Incumbent |
52.7% | 63,586 |
| Ami Bera (D) |
41% | 49,433 |
| Curt Taras (NPP) | 3.2% | 3,854 |
| Douglas Arthur Tuma (L) | 3.1% | 3,707 |
| Total Votes | 120,580 | |
2010
On November 2, 2010, Lungren won re-election to the United States House. He advanced past the blanket primary on June 5, 2012, defeating Ami Bera, Jerry L. Leidecker, Douglas Arthur Tuma, and Mike Roskey in the general election.[15]
| U.S. House, California District 3 General Election, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Dan Lungren Incumbent |
50.1% | 131,169 | |
| Democratic | Ami Bera | 43.2% | 113,128 | |
| American Independent | Jerry L. Leidecker | 2.5% | 6,577 | |
| Libertarian | Douglas Arthur Tuma | 2.4% | 6,275 | |
| Peace and Freedom | Mike Roskey | 1.8% | 4,789 | |
| Total Votes | 261,938 | |||
Polls
2012
| Dan Lungren V. Ami Bera | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poll | Dan Lungren | Ami Bera | Undecided | Margin of Error | Sample Size | ||||||||||||||
| Public Policy Polling (October 25-26, 2012) | 46% | 46% | 8% | +/-3.7 | 792 | ||||||||||||||
| Note: A "0%" finding means the candidate was not a part of the poll. The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org | |||||||||||||||||||
Campaign finance summary
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Analysis
Congressional staff salaries
The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. Lungren paid his congressional staff a total of $976,458 in 2011. He ranked 177th on the list of the lowest paid Republican representative staff salaries and ranked 237th overall of the lowest paid representative staff salaries in 2011. Overall, California ranked 5th in average salary for representative staff. The average U.S. House of Representatives congressional staff was paid $954,912.20 in fiscal year 2011.[16]
Staff bonuses
According to an analysis by CNN, Lungren was one of nearly 25 percent of House members who gave their staff bonuses in 2012. Lungren's staff was given an apparent $12,000.00 in bonus money.[17]
Net worth
Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Lungren's net worth as of 2010 was estimated between $2,003 and $70,000. That averages to $36,001.50, which is lower than the average net worth of Republican representatives in 2010 of $7,561,133.[18]
| Dan Lungren Yearly Net Worth | |
|---|---|
| Year | Average Net Worth |
| 2004 | $954,118 |
| 2012 | $135,502 |
| Growth from 2004 to 2012: | −86% |
| Average annual growth: | −11%[19] |
| Comparatively, the American citizen experienced a median yearly decline in net worth of -0.94%.[20] | |
The data used to calculate changes in net worth may include changes resulting from assets gained through marriage, inheritance, changes in family estates and/or trusts, changes in family business ownership, and many other variables unrelated to a member's behavior in Congress.
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. Lungren ranked 181st in the conservative rankings in 2012.[21]
2011
Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Lungren ranked 126th in the conservative rankings in 2011.[22]
Political positions
Voting with party
November 2011
Dan Lungren voted with the Republican Party 93.0 percent of the time, which ranked 104 among the 242 House Republican members as of 2011.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many
Personal
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Lungren and his wife, Bobbi, have three children.
Recent news
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Footnotes
- ↑ "Dan Lungren won't challenge Tom McClintock for Congress," sacbee.com, September 7, 2011
- ↑ Modesto Bee, "Outcome in tight Lungren-Bera contest could take weeks," November 8, 2012 (dead link)
- ↑ Sacramento Bee, "Ami Bera ousts Rep. Dan Lungren in congressional race" November 15, 2012
- ↑ GovTrack, "Lungren" accessed May 15, 2012
- ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "Daniel Edward Lungren," accessed November 2, 2011
- ↑ Campaign website, Issues
- ↑ U.S. House, "Roll Call Vote on the Fiscal Cliff," accessed January 4, 2013
- ↑ Congressman Dan Lungren, Representing the Sacramento Region, "Committees"
- ↑ Government Printing Office, "Proposed Immigration Fee Increase," February 14, 2007(See Page II)
- ↑ House Judiciary Committee, "111th Congress Committee Members" (dead link)
- ↑ House Judiciary Committee, "Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Membership, 111th Congress" (dead link)
- ↑ House Judiciary Committee, "Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Membership, 111th Congress" (dead link)
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Official primary candidate list," accessed March 13, 2014
- ↑ California Secretary of State, "Unofficial election results," November 6, 2012 (dead link)
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ LegiStorm, "Dan Lungren"
- ↑ CNN Politics, "Congressional bonuses in a time of cuts," accessed March 8, 2013
- ↑ OpenSecrets, "Lungren, (R-California), 2010"
- ↑ This figure represents the total percentage growth divided by the number of years for which there are net worth figures for each member.
- ↑ This figure was calculated using median asset data from the Census Bureau. Please see the Congressional Net Worth data for Ballotpedia spreadsheet for more information on this calculation.
- ↑ National Journal, "2012 Congressional Vote Ratings," February 21, 2013
- ↑ National Journal, "Searchable Vote Ratings Tables: House," accessed February 23, 2012
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Doug Ose |
U.S. House of Representatives - California, District 3 2005-2013 |
Succeeded by John Garamendi |
| Preceded by ' |
California Attorney General 1991-1999 |
Succeeded by ' |
