Former member of Congress · last served 106th Congress
Helen Chenoweth-Hage
Helen Chenoweth-Hage was a Republican U.S. representative from Idaho, first elected to Congress in 1995.
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. 1524 Public Forests Emergency Act of 1999Oct 31, 2000 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 592.
- H.Res. 597 Reaffirming the proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln on March 30, 1863, in which President Lincoln called for national humility, fasting, and…Oct 12, 2000 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
- H.R. 1144 Country-of-Origin Meat Labeling Act of 1999Sep 26, 2000 · Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- H.R. 3067 Nampa and Meridian Conveyance ActSep 20, 2000 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 523.
- H.R. 4902 Child Safety and Home Security Act of 2000Jul 20, 2000 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1842 (105th) To terminate further development and implementation of the American Heritage Rivers Initiative.Reported from committee
- H.R. 752 (105th) Citizen's Fair Hearing Act of 1997Reported from committee
- H.R. 1523 (106th) Forest Roads-Community Right-To-Know ActReported from committee
- H.R. 838 (105th) To require adoption of a management plan for the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area that allows appropriate use of motorized and nonmotorized river craft…Reported from committee
- H.R. 2611 (105th) Religious Fairness in Bankruptcy Act of 1997107 cosponsors
- H.R. 222 (106th) Imported Meat Labeling Act of 199949 cosponsors
- H.R. 3862 (104th) Citizen's Fair Hearing Act of 199649 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Chenoweth-Hage has won
Rep. Chenoweth-Hage has won 3 U.S. House elections (1994–1998). Of the contested races, margins ran from 2.4 to 10.9 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.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
106th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 20 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 20 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 0 | None listed |
| 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 106th 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.