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Former member of Congress · last served 111th Congress

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Rick Boucher

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · VirginiaHouse 1983–2011 (VA-9)

Rick Boucher was a Democratic U.S. representative from Virginia, first elected to Congress in 1983, who sponsored 10 bills that became law (100th–111th Congress).

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138Bills & resolutions sponsored100th–111th Congress (excludes amendments)
26Passed a chamberof 138 bills & resolutions sponsored
10Became law9 substantive + 0 ceremonial + 1 private · 100th–111th Congress
—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

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.

Recent votes

No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.

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. Boucher has won

Rep. Boucher has won 14 U.S. House elections (1982–2008). Of the contested races, margins ran from 0.8 to 39.7 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)1982, VA-9: won by 0.8 points1982VA-91984, VA-9: won by 4.0 points19841986: unopposed19861988, VA-9: won by 26.8 points19881990: unopposed19901992, VA-9: won by 26.2 points19921994, VA-9: won by 17.6 points19941996, VA-9: won by 34.3 points19961998, VA-9: won by 21.8 points19982000, VA-9: won by 39.7 points20002002, VA-9: won by 31.5 points20022004, VA-9: won by 20.4 points20042006, VA-9: won by 35.6 points20062008: unopposed2008
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won14 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 0.8 points1982, VA-9
Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 14 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Virginia’s 9th districtWinners, most recent three: William Wampler (R) 1976–1980 → Frederick Boucher (D) 1982–2008 → H. Morgan Griffith (R) 2010–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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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 Virginia’s 9th district done while Rep. Boucher served?

2005 to 2010 in VA-9: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was up 2.9 points.

Typical household income · after inflationVirginia $87.7KU.S. $72.4KVA-9 $50.9K
VA-9: $51.5K in 2005 → $50.9K in 2010
VA-9 about the sameVirginia about the sameU.S. down 3%
Share of people below the poverty lineVA-9 19.1%U.S. 15.3%Virginia 11.1%
VA-9: 18.7% in 2005 → 19.1% in 2010
VA-9 about the sameVirginia up 1.1 pointsU.S. up 2.0 points
Share of workers looking for a jobU.S. 10.8%VA-9 9.9%Virginia 7.9%
VA-9: 7.0% in 2005 → 9.9% in 2010
VA-9 up 2.9 pointsVirginia up 2.7 pointsU.S. up 3.9 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 Virginia’s 9th district during Boucher’s time representing it (1983 to 2011). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

One set of district lines. VA-9 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Boucher’s term so far (2005 to 2010) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

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

111th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 11 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored11Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement0None listed
With a CBO cost estimate listed2See the 2 →
With a committee report listed2See the 2 →
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 111th 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.

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