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Former member of Congress · last served 117th Congress

Official portrait of Rep. Anthony G. Brown

Anthony G. Brown

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · MarylandHouse 2017–2023 (MD-4)

Anthony Brown was a Democratic U.S. representative from Maryland, first elected to Congress in 2017, who sponsored 1 bill that became law (115th–117th Congress).

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133Bills & resolutions sponsored115th–117th Congress (excludes amendments)
1Passed a chamberof 124 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)
1Became law0 substantive + 1 ceremonial · 115th–117th Congress
—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

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

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Brown has won

Rep. Brown has won 3 U.S. House elections (2016–2020). Of the contested races, margins ran from 52.7 to 59.4 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)2016, MD-4: won by 52.7 points2016MD-42018, MD-4: won by 58.2 points20182020, MD-4: won by 59.4 points2020
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won3 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 52.7 points2016, MD-4
Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 3 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Maryland’s 4th districtWinners, most recent three: Donna F. Edwards (D) 2008–2014 → Anthony G. Brown (D) 2016–2020 → Glenn Ivey (D) 2022–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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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 Maryland’s 4th district done while Rep. Brown served?

2017 to 2021 in MD-4: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was up 2.5 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was up 1.3 points.

Typical household income · after inflationMaryland $104.5KMD-4 $104.1KU.S. $80.8K
MD-4: $104.2K in 2017 → $104.1K in 2021
MD-4 about the sameMaryland about the sameU.S. up 4%
Share of people below the poverty lineU.S. 12.8%MD-4 10.5%Maryland 10.3%
MD-4: 8.0% in 2017 → 10.5% in 2021
MD-4 up 2.5 pointsMaryland up 1.0 pointsU.S. down 0.6 points
Share of workers looking for a jobMD-4 7.2%U.S. 6.3%Maryland 5.9%
MD-4: 5.9% in 2017 → 7.2% in 2021
MD-4 up 1.3 pointsMaryland up 0.7 pointsU.S. up 1.0 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 Maryland’s 4th district during Brown’s time representing it (2017 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. MD-4 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, 2017 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2017 to 2023.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

117th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 43 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored43Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement38See the 38 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed0None listed
With a committee report listed0None listed
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.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.