Former member of Congress · last served 115th Congress
Lynn Jenkins
Lynn Jenkins was a Republican U.S. representative from Kansas, first elected to Congress in 2009, who voted with most Republicans on 97% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 1 bill that became law (113th–115th Congress).
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. 7227 Taxpayer First Act of 2018Dec 20, 2018 · Received in the Senate.
- H.R. 7323 Independent and Community Bank Shareholders Protection ActDec 17, 2018 · Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
- H.R. 7034 Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas Water Rights Settlement Agreement ActOct 22, 2018 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- H.R. 3635 Local Coverage Determination Clarification Act of 2018Sep 17, 2018 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- H.R. 6199 Restoring Access to Medication and Modernizing Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018Jul 26, 2018 · Received in the Senate.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 4067 (113th) To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural…Became law
- H.R. 1877 (114th) Mental Health First Aid Act of 2016Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1270 (114th) Restoring Access to Medication and Improving Health Savings Act of 2016Passed a chamber
- H.R. 529 (114th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve 529 plans.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3331 (115th) To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to promote testing of incentive payments for behavioral health providers for adoption and use of certified…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 5444 (115th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modernize and improve the Internal Revenue Service, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent…Passed a chamber
- H.R. 5613 (114th) CAH Act of 2016Passed a chamber
- H.R. 4935 (113th) Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Jenkins has won
Rep. Jenkins has won 5 U.S. House elections (2008–2016). Of the contested races, margins ran from 4.4 to 30.8 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 Kansas’s 2nd district done while Rep. Jenkins served?
2012 to 2018 in KS-2: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 1.8 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 3.0 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 Kansas’s 2nd district during Jenkins’s time representing it (2009 to 2019). 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. KS-2 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 2018 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2009 to 2019.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
115th 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 | 26 | See the 26 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 5 | See the 5 → |
| With a committee report listed | 5 | See the 5 → |
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.