Former member of Congress · last served 117th Congress
Val Butler Demings
Val Demings was a Democratic U.S. representative from Florida, first elected to Congress in 2017, who sponsored 2 bills that became law (115th–117th 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.
Recent votes
No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 8610 Health Security and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction ActDec 20, 2022 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 469.
- H.R. 5615 Homeland Security Capabilities Preservation ActDec 5, 2022 · By Senator Peters from Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs filed written report. Report No. 117-230.
- H.R. 9147 Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2022Nov 1, 2022 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
- H.R. 7550 Oil and Gas Industry Antitrust ActNov 1, 2022 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
- H.R. 5768 VICTIM Act of 2022Sep 27, 2022 · Received in the Senate.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 5062 (116th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9930 Conroy Windermere Road in Windermere, Florida, as the "Officer Robert German…Became law
- H.R. 6591 (115th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 501 South Kirkman Road in Orlando, Florida, as the "Napoleon 'Nap' Ford Post Office…Became law
- H.Res. 549 (116th) Reaffirming the commitment to media diversity and pledging to work with media entities and diverse stakeholders to develop common ground solutions to…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 5616 (117th) DHS Basic Training Accreditation Improvement Act of 2021Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2427 (115th) Pathways to Improving Homeland Security At the Local Level ActPassed a chamber
- H.Res. 277 (117th) Reaffirming the commitment to media diversity and pledging to work with media entities and diverse stakeholders to develop common ground solutions to…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1404 (116th) Vladimir Putin Transparency ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 449 (116th) Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level ActPassed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Demings has won
Rep. Demings has won 3 U.S. House elections (2016–2020). Of the contested races, margins ran from 27.2 to 29.7 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 Florida’s 10th district done while Rep. Demings served?
2017 to 2021 in FL-10: typical household income was up 15% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was up 2.7 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 Florida’s 10th district during Demings’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. FL-10 was redrawn in 2012, 2016 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.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
117th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 15 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 15 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 13 | See the 13 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 4 | See the 4 → |
| With a committee report listed | 4 | See the 4 → |
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.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.