Former member of Congress · last served 117th Congress
Alan S. Lowenthal
Alan Lowenthal was a Democratic U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 2013, who sponsored 1 bill that became law (113th–117th 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. 1506 Transparency in Energy Production Act of 2021Dec 14, 2022 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 454.
- H.R. 1505 Bonding Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2021Dec 14, 2022 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 453.
- H.R. 9477 SEAfood ActDec 8, 2022 · Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the…
- H.R. 8922 Southeast Asian Deportation Relief Act of 2022Nov 1, 2022 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
- H.R. 7708 Honor Our Commitment Act of 2022Nov 1, 2022 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 6323 (114th) To name the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system in Long Beach, California, the "Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center".Became law
- H.Res. 326 (116th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding United States efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a negotiated…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 728 (114th) Supporting human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Cambodia.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 5552 (116th) Migratory Bird Protection Act of 2020Reported from committee
- H.R. 1305 (116th) Albatross and Petrel Conservation ActReported from committee
- H.R. 1857 (116th) International Human Rights Defense Act of 2019214 cosponsors
- H.R. 6033 (115th) International Human Rights Defense Act of 2018173 cosponsors
- H.R. 1201 (117th) International Human Rights Defense Act of 2021151 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Lowenthal has won
Rep. Lowenthal has won 5 U.S. House elections (2012–2020). Of the contested races, margins ran from 12.0 to 29.7 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.
How has California’s 47th district done while Rep. Lowenthal served?
2013 to 2021 in CA-47: typical household income was up 18% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 3.7 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.6 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 California’s 47th district during Lowenthal’s time representing it (2013 to 2023). 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. CA-47 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, 2013 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2013 to 2023.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
117th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 18 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 18 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 13 | See the 13 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 117th 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.