Former member of Congress · last served 115th Congress
Rod Blum
Rod Blum was a Republican U.S. representative from Iowa, first elected to Congress in 2015, who sponsored 2 bills that became law (114th–115th 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. 1074 To repeal the Act entitled "An Act to confer jurisdiction on the State of Iowa over offenses committed by or against Indians on the Sac and Fox Indian…Dec 11, 2018 · Became Public Law No: 115-301.
- H.R. 6980 Breast Cancer Patient Equity ActOct 11, 2018 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- H.R. 6446 White House Conference on Small Business Act of 2018Jul 19, 2018 · Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
- H.R. 4043 Whistleblower Protection Extension Act of 2017Mar 7, 2018 · Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 340.
- H.R. 5144 Contracting Compliance ActMar 1, 2018 · Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 4605 (114th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 615 6th Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as the "Sgt. 1st Class Terryl L. Pasker Post…Became law
- H.R. 4639 (114th) Thoroughly Investigating Retaliation Against Whistleblowers ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 69 (115th) Thoroughly Investigating Retaliation Against Whistleblowers ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 2195 (115th) OSC Access ActReported from committee
- H.R. 3136 (114th) Enforcement Transparency Act of 201523 cosponsors
- H.R. 4424 (115th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for interest on certain small business loans.10 cosponsors
- H.R. 4509 (115th) No Congressional First Class Flights Act7 cosponsors
- H.Con.Res. 99 (115th) Expressing the sense of Congress on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of independence of Czechoslovakia, the 25th anniversary of the…6 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Blum has won
Rep. Blum has won 2 U.S. House elections (2014–2016). Of the contested races, margins ran from 2.3 to 7.7 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 Iowa’s 1st district done while Rep. Blum served?
2015 to 2018 in IA-1: 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 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 Iowa’s 1st district during Blum’s time representing it (2015 to 2019). 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. IA-1 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Blum’s term so far (2015 to 2018) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
115th 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 | 12 | See the 12 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
| With a committee report listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 115th 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.