Former member of Congress · last served 116th Congress
Joseph P. Kennedy III
Joseph Kennedy was a Democratic U.S. representative from Massachusetts, first elected to Congress in 2013, who sponsored 3 bills that became law (113th–116th 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.
Recent votes
No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 7460 Peace Corps Commemorative Work Extension ActJan 5, 2021 · Became Public Law No: 116-318.
- H.R. 9061 To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish a credit to any bid for a lease that includes a commitment to use a project labor agreement, and…Dec 31, 2020 · Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- H.R. 9060 To amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes of the United States to clarify that States are persons for purposes of liability under that section, and for…Dec 31, 2020 · Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- H.R. 9059 Climate Protection and Sustainable Communities ActDec 31, 2020 · Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
- H.R. 9058 ______ Act of 2020Dec 31, 2020 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2939 (113th) To award the Congressional Gold Medal to Shimon Peres.Became law
- H.R. 5722 (114th) John F. Kennedy Centennial Commission ActBecame law
- H.R. 3192 (115th) CHIP Mental Health Parity ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 2984 (114th) Fair RATES ActPassed a chamber
- H.Res. 124 (116th) Expressing opposition to banning service in the Armed Forces by openly transgender individuals.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 587 (115th) Fair RATES ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 915 (113th) To authorize the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.Reported from committee
- H.Res. 154 (115th) Of inquiry requesting the President of the United States and directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transmit certain information to the House…Reported from committee
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Kennedy has won
Rep. Kennedy has won 4 U.S. House elections (2012–2018). Of the contested races, margins ran from 24.5 to 46.5 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 Massachusetts’s 4th district done while Rep. Kennedy served?
2013 to 2019 in MA-4: typical household income was up 12% 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 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 Massachusetts’s 4th district during Kennedy’s time representing it (2013 to 2021). 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. MA-4 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Kennedy’s term so far (2013 to 2019) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
116th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 38 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 38 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 33 | See the 33 → |
| 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 116th 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 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.