Former member of Congress · last served 116th Congress
Elijah E. Cummings
Elijah Cummings was a Democratic U.S. representative from Maryland, first elected to Congress in 1995, who voted with most Democrats on 94% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 5 bills that became law (113th–116th 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.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments — American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Agreeing to the Resolution — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 8) to extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and…Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — Drywall Safety Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — To provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska.Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- NayOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Congressional Pay Freeze and Fiscal Responsibility ActJan 1, 2013 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 1966 Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act of 2019Jan 5, 2021 · Became Public Law No: 116-291.
- H.R. 4467 Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act of 2019Oct 2, 2020 · ASSSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Mfume asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 4467, a bill originally…
- H.R. 2981 Parren Mitchell Minority Business Education and Empowerment Act of 2019Oct 2, 2020 · ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Mfume asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 2981, a bill originally…
- H.R. 1075 FAFSA Fairness Act of 2019Jan 30, 2020 · ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Trone asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1075, a bill originally…
- H.R. 964 Transition Team Ethics Improvement ActJan 27, 2020 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 306.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 457 (106th) Organ Donor Leave ActBecame law
- H.R. 2842 (106th) Federal Employees Health Benefits Children's Equity Act of 2000Became law
- H.R. 3031 (115th) TSP Modernization Act of 2017Became law
- H.R. 5773 (111th) To designate the Federal building located at 6401 Security Boulevard in Baltimore, Maryland, commonly known as the Social Security Administration Operations…Became law
- H.R. 4107 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1826 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, as the "Maryland State Delegate Lena…Became law
- H.R. 4108 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3000 Homewood Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, as the "State Senator Verda Welcome and…Became law
- H.R. 4109 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6101 Liberty Road in Baltimore, Maryland, as the "United States Representative Parren…Became law
- H.R. 4447 (106th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 919 West 34th Street in Baltimore, Maryland, as the "Samuel H. Lacy, Sr. Post Office…Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Cummings has won
Rep. Cummings has won 12 U.S. House elections (1996–2018). Of the contested races, margins ran from 42.9 to 74.2 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 Maryland’s 7th district done while Rep. Cummings served?
2012 to 2018 in MD-7: typical household income was up 8% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 3.1 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 6.1 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 7th district during Cummings’s time representing it (1995 to 2019). 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-7 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, 2012 to 2018 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 1995 to 2019.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
116th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 32 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 32 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 30 | See the 30 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 6 | See the 6 → |
| With a committee report listed | 4 | See the 4 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 116th 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 · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.