Former member of Congress · last served 118th Congress

Jerry L. Carl

REPUBLICAN U.S. Representative · AlabamaHouse 2021–2025 (AL-1)

Jerry Carl was a Republican U.S. representative from Alabama, first elected to Congress in 2021.

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17Bills & resolutions sponsored117th–118th Congress (excludes amendments)

1Passed a chamberof 14 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

0Became law117th–118th 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)

$28.3MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 14 items; shared items split

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. 897 Alabama Underwater Forest National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act
Jul 9, 2024 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
H.R. 6180 Poarch Band of Creek Indians Lands Act
Jun 26, 2024 · Subcommittee Hearings Held
H.Res. 1280 Commending the University of South Alabama on the occasion of its 60th anniversary and its years of service to the State of Alabama and the United States.
Jun 7, 2024 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
H.R. 7080 Earn Your Keep Act
Jan 25, 2024 · Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
H.Res. 732 Expressing support for the designation of September 30, 2023, through October 7, 2023, as "National Student Athlete Mental Health Week".
Sep 27, 2023 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Top bills sponsored

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

Elections Rep. Carl has won

Rep. Carl has won 2 U.S. House elections (2020–2022). Of the contested races, margins ran from 28.8 to 67.9 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won2 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 28.8 points2020, AL-1

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 2 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Alabama’s 1st districtWinners, most recent three: Bradley Byrne (R) 2014–2018 → Jerry L. Carl (R) 2020–2022 → Barry Moore (R) 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 Alabama’s 1st district done while Rep. Carl served?

2022 to 2023 in AL-1: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.9 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.9 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

AL-1: $63.0K in 2022 → $63.7K in 2023

AL-1 about the sameAlabama about the sameU.S. about the same

Share of people below the poverty line

AL-1: 16.9% in 2022 → 14.0% in 2023

AL-1 down 2.9 pointsAlabama about the sameU.S. down 0.1 points

Share of workers looking for a job

AL-1: 5.1% in 2022 → 3.2% in 2023

AL-1 down 1.9 pointsAlabama about the sameU.S. 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 Alabama’s 1st district during Carl’s time representing it (2021 to 2025). 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. AL-1 was redrawn in 2012, 2022 and again in 2024, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2022 to 2023 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2021 to 2025.

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

118th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 7 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	7	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement	5	See the 5 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	0	None listed
With a committee report listed	1	See the 1 →

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 118th 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.