Member of Congress · 119th Congress
Vern Buchanan
Vern Buchanan is a Republican U.S. representative from Florida, in Congress since 2007, who voted with most Republicans on 97% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 2 bills become law since 2013.
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
- Not VotingOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- Not VotingOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- Not VotingOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- Not VotingOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- Not VotingOn Passage — PROOF ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 6130 ASAP ActSep 16, 2026 · Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 0.
- H.R. 9501 AI Tax Integrity Act of 2026Sep 8, 2026 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 701.
- H.R. 139 Sunshine Protection Act of 2025Jul 15, 2026 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- H.R. 5347 Health Care Efficiency Through Flexibility ActJul 13, 2026 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- H.R. 8959 Semiconductor Superiority ActMay 21, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 6604 (117th) Veterans Eligible to Transfer School (VETS) Credit ActBecame law
- H.R. 91 (114th) Veterans Identification Card Act 2015Became law
- H.R. 3957 (114th) Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016Passed a chamber
- H.R. 6756 (115th) American Innovation Act of 2018Passed a chamber
- H.R. 4342 (110th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 824 Manatee Avenue West in Bradenton, Florida, as the "Dan Miller Post Office…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 115 (115th) Thin Blue Line ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 2366 (110th) SBA Veterans' Programs Act of 2007Passed a chamber
- H.R. 5456 (114th) Family First Prevention Services Act of 2016Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on Ways and MeansHealth, Trade
- Joint Committee on TaxationNo subcommittees
Elections Rep. Buchanan has won
Rep. Buchanan has won 10 U.S. House elections (2006–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 0.2 to 37.7 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.
How has Florida’s 16th district done while Rep. Buchanan served?
2016 to 2021 in FL-16: typical household income was up 17% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.5 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.
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 Florida’s 16th district during Buchanan’s time representing it (2013 to now). 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. FL-16 was redrawn in 2012, 2016 and again 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, 2016 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2013 to now.
Local offices
Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.
- Brandon office510 Vonderburg Drive, Suite 303, Brandon, FL 33511
Hours: By appointment only
Phone 813-657-1013 · Fax 771-200-5798 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Bradenton office8433 Enterprise Circle, Suite 210, Bradenton, FL 34202
Phone 941-951-6643 · Fax 771-200-5798 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Longboat Key office5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Suite 210, Longboat Key, FL 34228
Hours: By appointment only
Phone 941-951-6643 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries B001260-brandon, B001260-bradenton, B001260-longboat_key (3 offices)
- Published at
- https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
- File date
- September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, buchanan.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 46 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 46 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 25, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 46 | See the 46 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
| With a Congress.gov note | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 25, 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 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.