Former member of Congress · last served 115th Congress

Ruben J. Kihuen

DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative · NevadaHouse 2017–2019 (NV-4)

Ruben Kihuen was a Democratic U.S. representative from Nevada, first elected to Congress in 2017, who sponsored 1 bill that became law (115th–115th Congress).

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9Bills & resolutions sponsored115th–115th Congress (excludes amendments)

0Passed a chamberof 8 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

1Became law0 substantive + 1 ceremonial · 115th–115th Congress

—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

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. 5205 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 701 6th Street in Hawthorne, Nevada, as the "Sergeant Kenneth Eric Bostic Post Office".
Dec 21, 2018 · Became Public Law No: 115-354.
H.R. 4281 Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act
Jan 29, 2018 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 396.
H.R. 2374 Eastern Nevada Economic Development and Land Management Improvement Act
Sep 14, 2017 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 221.
H.R. 3636 Educator Preparation Reform Act
Aug 1, 2017 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
H.R. 3343 Servicemember Voting Protection Act
Jul 20, 2017 · Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Top bills sponsored

H.R. 2033 (115th) Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act
7 cosponsors
H.R. 3078 (115th) Iran Ballistic Missile Reporting Act of 2017
7 cosponsors
H.R. 996 (115th) STEP for Veterans Act
2 cosponsors

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

Elections Rep. Kihuen has won

Rep. Kihuen has won 1 U.S. House election (2016–2016). Of the contested races, margins ran from 4.0 to 4.0 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won1 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 4.0 points2016, NV-4

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 1 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Nevada’s 4th districtWinners, most recent three: Cresent Hardy (R) 2014 → Ruben J. Kihuen (D) 2016 → Steven Horsford (D) 2018–2024. 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 Nevada’s 4th district done while Rep. Kihuen served?

2017 to 2018 in NV-4: typical household income was down 5% 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 1.1 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

NV-4: $76.7K in 2017 → $72.6K in 2018

NV-4 down 5%Nevada about the sameU.S. about the same

Share of people below the poverty line

NV-4: 13.7% in 2017 → 14.0% in 2018

NV-4 about the sameNevada about the sameU.S. down 0.3 points

Share of workers looking for a job

NV-4: 6.9% in 2017 → 5.8% in 2018

NV-4 down 1.1 pointsNevada about the sameU.S. down 0.4 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 Nevada’s 4th district during Kihuen’s time representing it (2017 to 2019). 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. NV-4 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Kihuen’s term so far (2017 and 2018) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

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.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

115th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 9 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	9	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	2	See the 2 →
With a committee report listed	2	See the 2 →

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.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.