PORKEROpen the app

Former member of Congress · last served 118th Congress

Official portrait of Rep. Earl Blumenauer

Earl Blumenauer

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · OregonHouse 1995–2025 (OR-3)

Earl Blumenauer was a Democratic U.S. representative from Oregon, first elected to Congress in 1995, who voted with most Democrats on 93% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 5 bills that became law (113th–118th Congress).

Open full dossier →
243Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–118th Congress (excludes amendments)
10Passed a chamberof 231 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)
5Became law5 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 113th–118th Congress
41Broke with partyof 619 yes/no votes, 112th (6.6%)
37Missed votesof 658 roll calls, 112th (5.6%)
$9.8MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 14 items; shared items split

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

5 most recent votes

5 most recent bills

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Blumenauer has won

Rep. Blumenauer has won 14 U.S. House elections (1996–2022). Of the contested races, margins ran from 40.1 to 75.7 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)1996, OR-3: won by 40.7 points1996OR-31998, OR-3: won by 75.7 points19982000, OR-3: won by 43.2 points20002002, OR-3: won by 40.1 points20022004, OR-3: won by 47.3 points20042006, OR-3: won by 50.2 points20062008, OR-3: won by 53.8 points20082010, OR-3: won by 45.5 points20102012, OR-3: won by 54.8 points20122014, OR-3: won by 52.9 points20142016, OR-3: won by 51.6 points20162018, OR-3: won by 52.8 points20182020, OR-3: won by 49.5 points20202022, OR-3: won by 43.6 points2022
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won14 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 40.1 points2002, OR-3
Won an open seat or took one from the other party0 of 14 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Oregon’s 3rd districtWinners, most recent three: Ron Wyden (D) 1980–1994 → Earl Blumenauer (D) 1996–2022 → Maxine Dexter (D) 2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

Full election history for this seat →

Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has Oregon’s 3rd district done while Rep. Blumenauer served?

2005 to 2021 in OR-3: typical household income was up 31% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 4.7 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.5 points.

Typical household income · after inflationOR-3 $92.0KOregon $82.9KU.S. $80.8K
OR-3: $70.3K in 2005 → $92.0K in 2021
OR-3 up 31%Oregon up 20%U.S. up 8%
Share of people below the poverty lineU.S. 12.8%Oregon 12.2%OR-3 11.8%
OR-3: 16.5% in 2005 → 11.8% in 2021
OR-3 down 4.7 pointsOregon down 1.9 pointsU.S. down 0.5 points
Share of workers looking for a jobOR-3 6.8%Oregon 6.4%U.S. 6.3%
OR-3: 8.4% in 2005 → 6.8% in 2021
OR-3 down 1.5 pointsOregon down 1.2 pointsU.S. down 0.6 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Oregon’s 3rd district during Blumenauer’s time representing it (1995 to 2025). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

Only one set of district lines is shown. OR-3 was redrawn in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2005 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 1995 to 2025.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

118th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 35 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored35Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement33See the 33 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed0None listed
With a committee report listed0None listed
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 118th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields
cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed
October 26, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

Open full dossier →

Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.