Member of Congress · 119th Congress

Maxine Dexter

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · OregonHouse 2025–now (OR-3)

Maxine Dexter is a Democratic U.S. representative from Oregon, in Congress since 2025, who voted with most Democrats on 97% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 1 bill become law since 2025.

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20Bills & resolutions sponsored119th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)

1Passed a chamberof 18 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

1Became law1 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 119th–119th Congress · 1 this Congress

18Broke with partyof 664 yes/no votes, 119th (2.7%)

8Missed votesof 675 roll calls, 119th (1.2%)

—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.

5 most recent votes

YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership Act
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection Act
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
NayOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
NayOn Passage — PROOF Act
Sep 16, 2026 · Passed

5 most recent bills

H.R. 10492 Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety Act
Sep 17, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently…
H.R. 10256 Taxpayer Relief from Big Oil Act
Sep 3, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
H.R. 10255 Penalties for Polluters Act
Sep 3, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently…
H.R. 9510 VHA OPEN Policies Act of 2026
Jun 30, 2026 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
H.R. 9270 Dignity and Due Process for Children Act of 2026
Jun 11, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in…

Top bills sponsored

H.R. 4446 (119th) FAST VETS Act
Became law
H.R. 5941 (119th) Restoring Access for Detainees Act
49 cosponsors
H.R. 4976 (119th) Shielding Students from Wildfire Smoke Act
21 cosponsors
H.R. 4493 (119th) Climate Health Emergency Act of 2025
17 cosponsors
H.R. 8099 (119th) Plug Offshore Wells Act
10 cosponsors
H.R. 994 (119th) Stop Musk Act
5 cosponsors
H.Res. 1169 (119th) Honoring the 2026 Olympians and Paralympians from Oregon.
5 cosponsors

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

Committees

House Committee on Natural Resources
Federal Lands, Oversight and Investigations
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, Health

Elections Rep. Dexter has won

Rep. Dexter has won 1 U.S. House election (2024–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 42.5 to 42.5 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won1 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 42.5 points2024, OR-3

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 1 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Oregon’s 3rd districtWinners, most recent three: Ron Wyden (D) 1980–1994 → Earl Blumenauer (D) 1996–2022 → Maxine Dexter (D) 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.

Local offices

Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.

Portland office911 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97232
Phone 503-231-2300 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)

Evidence

File: legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries D000635-portland (1 office)
Published at: https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
File date: September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain)

Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, dexter.house.gov.

Federal figures for OR-3

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s district. The full table, sources and notes are on the district page.

120,495people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 1; sheet 'OR - OASDI', row 8
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

16,682people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 2; sheet 'OR - SSI', row 9
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

$206,136,038VA direct expenditures attributed to this district, FY2025

Source: VA GDX FY2025, CD Direct, September 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File: GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'CD Direct Exp', row 325, code OR03
Prepared: September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries: 119th Congress districts
Licence: U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

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Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th 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	18	See the 18 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	1	See the 1 →
With a committee report listed	1	See the 1 →

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th 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 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.