Former member of Congress · last served 117th Congress
Cheri Bustos
Cheri Bustos was a Democratic U.S. representative from Illinois, first elected to Congress in 2013, who sponsored 5 bills that became law (113th–117th Congress).
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. 5554 No Bonuses in Bankruptcy Act of 2021Nov 1, 2022 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
- H.R. 9145 Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program Act of 2022Oct 7, 2022 · Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
- H.R. 8071 All-American Flag ActJun 15, 2022 · Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
- H.R. 4445 Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021Mar 3, 2022 · Became Public Law No: 117-90.
- H.R. 6516 Neighborhood Reinvestment and Revitalization Act of 2022Jan 28, 2022 · Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2672 (115th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 520 Carter Street in Fairview, Illinois, as the "Sgt. Douglas J. Riney Post Office".Became law
- H.R. 2673 (115th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 514 Broadway Street in Pekin, Illinois, as the "Lance Corporal Jordan S. Bastean Post…Became law
- H.R. 5737 (115th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 108 West D Street in Alpha, Illinois, as the "Captain Joshua E. Steele Post Office".Became law
- H.R. 5123 (116th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 476 East Main Street in Galesburg, Illinois, as the "Senior Airman Daniel Miller Post…Became law
- H.R. 3121 (115th) All-American Flag ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 2227 (116th) Gold Star Spouses and Spouses of Injured Servicemembers Leasing Relief Expansion Act of 2019Passed a chamber
- H.R. 5882 (115th) Gold Star Spouses Leasing Relief ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 113 (116th) All-American Flag ActPassed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Bustos has won
Rep. Bustos has won 5 U.S. House elections (2012–2020). Of the contested races, margins ran from 4.1 to 24.2 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 Illinois’s 17th district done while Rep. Bustos served?
2013 to 2021 in IL-17: 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 down 1.5 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 Illinois’s 17th district during Bustos’s time representing it (2013 to 2023). 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. IL-17 was redrawn in 2012 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, 2013 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2013 to 2023.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
117th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 21 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 21 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 18 | See the 18 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 117th 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.