Former member of Congress · last served 101st Congress
Joseph E. Brennan
Joseph Brennan was a Democratic U.S. representative from Maine, first elected to Congress in 1987.
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
- H.R. 5908 To amend the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 to require samples of prescription drugs distributed to physicians and other prescribing practitioners to…Nov 19, 1990 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness.
- H.R. 1421 Marine Research Act of 1989Nov 16, 1990 · See H.R.3338.
- H.R. 5424 To provide for 2 demonstration projects to study the effect of allowing States to extend medicaid coverage to certain low-income families not otherwise…Aug 31, 1990 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
- H.R. 4419 To authorize appropriations for the congregate housing services program for fiscal year 1991.Jun 1, 1990 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development.
- H.R. 3851 Making supplemental appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in certain States…Jan 23, 1990 · Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 4525 (100th) A bill to designate the United States Courthouse located at 156 Federal Street in Portland, Maine as the "Edward Thaxter Gignoux United States Courthouse".Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1383 (101st) To amend the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to hire, or threaten to hire, permanent replacement workers…100 cosponsors
- H.R. 4231 (100th) Marine Research Act of 198835 cosponsors
- H.R. 1382 (101st) To make supplemental appropriations for veterans health care for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1989.33 cosponsors
- H.R. 675 (101st) Member of Congress Honoraria Prohibition Act of 198926 cosponsors
- H.R. 4444 (100th) A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit tax-free sales of certain fuels, and for other purposes.24 cosponsors
- H.R. 4552 (100th) A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to hire, or threaten to hire, permanent replacement…22 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Brennan has won
Rep. Brennan has won 2 U.S. House elections (1986–1988). Of the contested races, margins ran from 9.4 to 26.4 points.
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.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
101st Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 13 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 13 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 0 | None listed |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 101st 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.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.