Former member of Congress · last served 115th Congress
Trent Franks
Trent Franks was a Republican U.S. representative from Arizona, first elected to Congress in 2003, who voted with most Republicans on 94% 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. 4496 Clean Air Contingency Measures Act of 2017Dec 1, 2017 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
- H.Res. 534 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the people of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have the right to determine their status as a sovereign…Nov 29, 2017 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa.
- H.Res. 602 Expressing support for the goals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children awaiting…Nov 1, 2017 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
- H.R. 36 Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection ActOct 4, 2017 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- H.R. 3188 For the relief of Christopher William Gard, Constance Rhoda Keely Yates, and Charles Matthew William Gard.Jul 24, 2017 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1797 (113th) Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection ActPassed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 139 (110th) Expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should address the ongoing problem of untouchability in India.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1073 (114th) CIPAPassed a chamber
- H.R. 1410 (113th) Keep the Promise Act of 2013Passed a chamber
- H.R. 2938 (112th) Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Clarification ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 36 (114th) Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 3504 (114th) Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 3410 (113th) CIPAPassed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Franks has won
Rep. Franks has won 8 U.S. House elections (2002–2016). Of the contested races, margins ran from 19.7 to 51.6 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 Arizona’s 8th district done while Rep. Franks served?
2013 to 2016 in AZ-8: typical household income was up 7% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.6 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was 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 Arizona’s 8th district during Franks’s time representing it (2013 to 2017). 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. AZ-8 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Franks’s term so far (2013 to 2016) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
115th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 12 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 12 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 9 | See the 9 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 115th 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.