Member of Congress · 119th Congress
Mike Bost
Mike Bost is a Republican U.S. representative from Illinois, in Congress since 2015, who voted with most Republicans on 98% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 7 bills become law since 2015.
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
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn 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
- YeaOn Passage — PROOF ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 2283 Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery ActOct 5, 2026 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 736.
- H.R. 9237 Take Care of America’s Veterans ActJul 16, 2026 · POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, the Chair announced further proceedings on H.R. 9237 is postponed.
- H.R. 9214 TSP Modernization ActJun 9, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
- H.R. 1041 Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection ActJun 2, 2026 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- H.R. 6779 USDA Loan Modernization ActMay 20, 2026 · Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2288 (115th) Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017Became law
- H.R. 8976 (118th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 20 West White Street in Millstadt, Illinois, as the "Corporal Matthew A. Wyatt Post…Became law
- H.R. 1329 (115th) Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2017Became law
- H.R. 2911 (117th) VA Transparency & Trust Act of 2021Became law
- H.R. 4958 (115th) Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2018Became law
- H.R. 7735 (117th) Improving Access to the VA Home Loan Benefit Act of 2022Became law
- H.R. 6324 (118th) Fiscal Year 2024 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization ActBecame law
- H.R. 3956 (114th) VA Health Center Management Stability and Improvement ActPassed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on AgricultureGeneral Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureHighways and Transit, Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, Water Resources and Environment
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — ChairmanNo subcommittees
Elections Rep. Bost has won
Rep. Bost has won 6 U.S. House elections (2014–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 6.2 to 50.0 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 12th district done while Rep. Bost served?
2015 to 2021 in IL-12: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.0 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.3 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 12th district during Bost’s time representing it (2015 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. IL-12 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, 2015 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2015 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.
- Mascoutah office205 East Harnett Street, Mascoutah, IL 62258
Phone 618-622-0766 · Fax 618-448-4233 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Effingham office101 N 4th St, Suite 302, Effingham, IL 62401
Phone 217-240-3170 · Fax 618-448-4233 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Murphysboro office1109 Chestnut Street, Murphysboro, IL 62966
Phone 618-457-5787 · Fax 618-448-4233 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries B001295-mascoutah, B001295-effingham, B001295-murphysboro (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, bost.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 25 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 25 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 22 | See the 22 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 5 | See the 5 → |
| With a committee report listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
| 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 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 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.