Former member of Congress · last served 113th Congress

William L. Enyart

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · IllinoisHouse 2013–2015 (IL-12)

William Enyart was a Democratic U.S. representative from Illinois, first elected to Congress in 2013.

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8Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–113th Congress (excludes amendments)

0Passed a chamberof 6 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

0Became law113th–113th 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)

—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.

Recent votes

No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.

5 most recent bills

H.R. 4824 WORC Grant Program Act of 2014
Nov 17, 2014 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
H.R. 3678 To redesignate the lock and dam located in Modoc, Illinois, commonly known as the Kaskaskia Lock and Dam, as the "Jerry F. Costello Lock and Dam", and for…
Nov 12, 2014 · Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 142.
H.R. 3125 To authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to make competitive grants to support research and development, education, and training to produce a bio-based…
Nov 6, 2013 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
H.R. 2243 To authorize the Secretary of the Air Force to make competitive grants to support research and development, education, and training to produce a bio-based…
Aug 29, 2013 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
H.R. 1436 JOBS Act
Jul 8, 2013 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Top bills sponsored

H.R. 1739 (113th) Veterans Backlog Reduction Act
34 cosponsors
H.R. 1152 (113th) Mississippi River Navigation Sustainment Act
3 cosponsors

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

Elections Rep. Enyart has won

Rep. Enyart has won 1 U.S. House election (2012–2012). Of the contested races, margins ran from 8.9 to 8.9 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

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

Closest win: 8.9 points2012, IL-12

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

Seat history, Illinois’s 12th districtWinners, most recent three: Jerry F. Costello (D) 1992–2010 → William L. Enyart (D) 2012 → Mike Bost (R) 2014–2024. 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 Illinois’s 12th district done while Rep. Enyart served?

2013 to 2014 in IL-12: 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 1.6 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

IL-12: $59.7K in 2013 → $59.8K in 2014

IL-12 about the sameIllinois about the sameU.S. up 1%

Share of people below the poverty line

IL-12: 18.4% in 2013 → 19.2% in 2014

IL-12 about the sameIllinois about the sameU.S. down 0.3 points

Share of workers looking for a job

IL-12: 9.5% in 2013 → 7.8% in 2014

IL-12 down 1.6 pointsIllinois down 1.5 pointsU.S. down 1.2 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 Illinois’s 12th district during Enyart’s time representing it (2013 to 2015). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

One set of district lines. IL-12 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Enyart’s term so far (2013 and 2014) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

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

113th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 8 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	8	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement	6	See the 6 →
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 113th 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.