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Member of Congress · 119th Congress

Official portrait of Rep. Steny H. Hoyer

Steny H. Hoyer

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · MarylandHouse 1981–now (MD-5)

Steny Hoyer is a Democratic U.S. representative from Maryland, in Congress since 1981, who voted with most Democrats on 97% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 4 bills become law since 2013.

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58Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)
8Passed a chamberof 21 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)
4Became law4 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 113th–119th Congress · 0 this Congress
17Broke with partyof 651 yes/no votes, 119th (2.6%)
19Missed votesof 675 roll calls, 119th (2.8%)
$5.1MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 15 items; shared items split

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

5 most recent bills

Top bills sponsored

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

Committees

Elections Rep. Hoyer has won

Rep. Hoyer has won 22 U.S. House elections (1982–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 9.1 to 66.2 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)1982, MD-5: won by 59.2 points1982MD-51984, MD-5: won by 44.4 points19841986, MD-5: won by 63.9 points19861988, MD-5: won by 57.3 points19881990, MD-5: won by 61.3 points19901992, MD-5: won by 9.1 points19921994, MD-5: won by 17.6 points19941996, MD-5: won by 13.8 points19961998, MD-5: won by 30.7 points19982000, MD-5: won by 30.2 points20002002, MD-5: won by 38.8 points20022004, MD-5: won by 39.5 points20042006, MD-5: won by 66.2 points20062008, MD-5: won by 49.7 points20082010, MD-5: won by 29.6 points20102012, MD-5: won by 41.7 points20122014, MD-5: won by 28.3 points20142016, MD-5: won by 38.0 points20162018, MD-5: won by 43.2 points20182020, MD-5: won by 37.8 points20202022, MD-5: won by 32.0 points20222024, MD-5: won by 35.7 points2024
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won22 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 9.1 points1992, MD-5
Won an open seat or took one from the other party0 of 22 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Maryland’s 5th districtWinners, most recent three: Gladys Spellman (D) 1976–1980 → Steny H. Hoyer (D) 1982–2024. 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 Maryland’s 5th district done while Rep. Hoyer served?

2012 to 2021 in MD-5: typical household income was up 8% 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 1.4 points.

Typical household income · after inflationMD-5 $130.0KMaryland $104.5KU.S. $80.8K
MD-5: $120.4K in 2012 → $130.0K in 2021
MD-5 up 8%Maryland up 7%U.S. up 15%
Share of people below the poverty lineU.S. 12.8%Maryland 10.3%MD-5 7.6%
MD-5: 7.7% in 2012 → 7.6% in 2021
MD-5 about the sameMaryland about the sameU.S. down 3.2 points
Share of workers looking for a jobU.S. 6.3%Maryland 5.9%MD-5 5.8%
MD-5: 7.1% in 2012 → 5.8% in 2021
MD-5 down 1.4 pointsMaryland down 2.4 pointsU.S. down 3.1 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 Maryland’s 5th district during Hoyer’s time representing it (1981 to now). 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. MD-5 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, 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 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 1981 to now.

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.

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.

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 H000874-greenbelt, H000874-white_plains (2 offices)
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, hoyer.house.gov.

Federal figures for MD-5

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

136,812people 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 'MD - OASDI', row 10
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
8,898people 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 'MD - SSI', row 11
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
$930,576,601VA 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 190, code MD05
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 1 bill sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored1Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement1See the 1 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed0None listed
With a committee report listed0None 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.

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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.