Former member of Congress · last served 109th Congress
Jim Nussle
Jim Nussle was a Republican U.S. representative from Iowa, first elected to Congress in 1991, who sponsored 2 bills that became law (102nd–109th 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.Con.Res. 376 Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2007 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years…May 18, 2006 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.R. 5208 Independence from Oil with Agriculture Act of 2006Apr 26, 2006 · Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the…
- H.R. 4241 Deficit Reduction Act of 2005Nov 18, 2005 · The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in…
- H.R. 3360 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance tax incentives for small property and casualty insurance companies.Jul 20, 2005 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- H.R. 3067 To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide a new subheading for certain log forwarders used as motor vehicles for the transport…Jun 29, 2005 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 3745 (106th) Effigy Mounds National Monument Additions ActBecame law
- H.R. 5708 (107th) To reduce preexisting PAYGO balances, and for other purposes.Became law
- H.Res. 19 (108th) Designating the room numbered H-236 in the House of Representatives wing of the Capitol as the "Richard K. Armey Room".Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 95 (109th) Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2006, revising appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2005, and…Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 393 (108th) Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years…Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 95 (108th) Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2004 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years…Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 353 (107th) Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2003 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal…Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 83 (107th) Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2002, revising the congressional budget for the United States…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Nussle has won
Rep. Nussle has won 8 U.S. House elections (1990–2004). Of the contested races, margins ran from 1.0 to 14.5 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 Iowa’s 1st district done while Rep. Nussle served?
2005 to 2006 in IA-1: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, 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 Iowa’s 1st district during Nussle’s time representing it (2003 to 2007). 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. IA-1 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Nussle’s term so far (2005 and 2006) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
109th 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 | 0 | None listed |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
| With a Congress.gov note | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 109th 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.