Former member of Congress · last served 114th Congress
Renee L. Ellmers
Renee Ellmers was a Republican U.S. representative from North Carolina, first elected to Congress in 2011, who voted with most Republicans on 97% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes.
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
- NayOn 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
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Congressional Pay Freeze and Fiscal Responsibility ActJan 1, 2013 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 5960 Consumer Healthcare Insurance Transparency Act of 2016Sep 8, 2016 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- H.R. 5913 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2016Jul 18, 2016 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- H.R. 4444 EPS Improvement Act of 2016Jul 14, 2016 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- H.R. 5336 Taxpayer-Funded Travel Transparency Act of 2016May 26, 2016 · Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
- H.R. 2589 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission to publish on its Internet website the text of any item that is…May 24, 2016 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 398 (114th) Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2059 (112th) To prohibit funding to the United Nations Population Fund.Reported from committee
- H.R. 1425 (112th) Creating Jobs Through Small Business Innovation Act of 2011Reported from committee
- H.R. 1221 (114th) HELLPP Act143 cosponsors
- H.R. 1416 (113th) Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2013123 cosponsors
- H.R. 3339 (114th) Protecting Access to Lifesaving Screenings Act (PALS Act)63 cosponsors
- H.R. 5083 (113th) Medicare DMEPOS Audit Improvement and Reform (AIR) Act of 201445 cosponsors
- H.R. 3556 (113th) Humane Care for Primates Act of 201343 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Ellmers has won
Rep. Ellmers has won 3 U.S. House elections (2010–2014). Of the contested races, margins ran from 0.8 to 17.7 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 North Carolina’s 2nd district done while Rep. Ellmers served?
2012 to 2015 in NC-2: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 3.3 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 North Carolina’s 2nd district during Ellmers’s time representing it (2011 to 2017). 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. NC-2 was redrawn in 2012, 2016, 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, 2012 to 2015 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2011 to 2017.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
114th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 28 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 28 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 27 | See the 27 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 114th 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.