Former member of Congress · last served 116th Congress
Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell was an Independent U.S. representative from Michigan, first elected to Congress in 2017, who sponsored 1 bill that became law (115th–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. 2847 No Passport Fees for Heroes’ Families ActMar 4, 2020 · Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- H.Res. 814 Expressing support for the designation of the week of January 26 through February 1, 2020, as "National School Choice Week".Jan 27, 2020 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
- H.R. 2831 BUILDS ActMay 17, 2019 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
- H.R. 2270 Removing Barriers to Foster Youth Success in College ActApr 10, 2019 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
- H.R. 1204 OIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability ActMar 25, 2019 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 4921 (115th) STB Information Security Improvement ActBecame law
- H.R. 1009 (115th) OIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability ActPassed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 149 (115th) Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make certain corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 4174.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 6891 (115th) The Anti-Deficiency Reform and Enforcement Act of 2018Reported from committee
- H.R. 1766 (116th) College Transparency Act234 cosponsors
- H.R. 2434 (115th) College Transparency Act32 cosponsors
- H.R. 916 (116th) School Resource Officer Act of 201916 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Mitchell has won
Rep. Mitchell has won 2 U.S. House elections (2016–2018). Of the contested races, margins ran from 25.3 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 Michigan’s 10th district done while Rep. Mitchell served?
2017 to 2019 in MI-10: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 1.5 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.
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 Michigan’s 10th district during Mitchell’s time representing it (2017 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. MI-10 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Mitchell’s term so far (2017 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 11 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 11 | 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 | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
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.