Member of Congress · 119th Congress

Valerie P. Foushee
Valerie Foushee is a Democratic U.S. representative from North Carolina, in Congress since 2023, who voted with most Democrats on 98% of the 119th 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
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 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 ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.Res. 1631 Expressing support for the designation of the third week of October as "National Hunter Syndrome Awareness Week".Oct 19, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- H.R. 10778 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a credit to incentivize the use of certain low-emission anesthetic gases by health care facilities…Oct 9, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 10494 American Tariff Rebate ActSep 17, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently…
- H.R. 10433 SAFE Platforms ActSep 16, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- H.R. 10088 To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to conduct a study to assess the potential for…Aug 13, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 8893 (119th) Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI ActReported from committee
- H.R. 9403 (118th) Expanding AI Voices ActReported from committee
- H.R. 9253 (118th) National Gun Violence Research Act40 cosponsors
- H.R. 7733 (119th) Ensuring OB–GYN Care in Prisons Act26 cosponsors
- H.R. 6138 (119th) To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot program for partnerships between covered basic needs banks and military installations to provide…17 cosponsors
- H.Res. 998 (118th) Expressing support for the designation of February 4, 2024, as "Transit Equity Day".17 cosponsors
- H.R. 9894 (118th) Cool Roof Rebate Act of 202415 cosponsors
- H.R. 5622 (119th) National Gun Violence Research Act of 202513 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyEnergy, Space and Aeronautics
- House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureAviation, Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Elections Rep. Foushee has won
Rep. Foushee has won 2 U.S. House elections (2022–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 33.8 to 45.7 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.
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.
- Durham office2605 Meridian Parkway, Suite 110, Durham, NC 27713
Phone 919-967-7924 · Fax 984-234-7724 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries F000477-durham (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, foushee.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 40 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 40 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 31 | See the 31 → |
| 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 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.
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.