Member of Congress · 119th Congress

Gary C. Peters

DEMOCRAT U.S. Senator · MichiganSenate 2015–now · House 2009–2015 (MI-9, MI-14)

Gary Peters is a Democratic U.S. senator from Michigan, in Congress since 2009, who voted with most Democrats on 95% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 49 bills become law since 2013.

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542Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)

96Passed a chamberof 488 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

49Became law44 substantive + 5 ceremonial · 113th–119th Congress · 1 this Congress

47Broke with partyof 896 yes/no votes, 119th (5.2%)

19Missed votesof 915 roll calls, 119th (2.1%)

$70.7MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 86 items; shared items split

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.

5 most recent votes

NayOn the Nomination — Nomination vote
Sep 30, 2026 · Nomination Confirmed
NayOn the Cloture Motion — Nomination vote
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture Motion Agreed to
NayOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Ratepayer Protection Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
NayOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Stop Insider Trading Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
YeaOn the Motion to Discharge — A resolution requesting information on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Sep 29, 2026 · Motion to Discharge Rejected

5 most recent bills

S. 528 GLRI Act of 2026
Oct 5, 2026 · Held at the desk.
S. 5648 TAG Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
S. 5555 PFAS RAPID Response Act
Sep 24, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
S. 3404 Satellite Cybersecurity Act of 2025
Sep 24, 2026 · Held at the desk.
S. 5450 A bill to adjust the rail safety inspections General Schedule classification, and for other purposes.
Sep 22, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Top bills sponsored

S. 2216 (116th) TEAM Veteran Caregivers Act
Became law
S. 231 (117th) PFAS Act
Became law
S. 467 (118th) CADETS Act
Became law
S. 2107 (116th) Protecting America's Food and Agriculture Act of 2019
Became law
S. 3662 (117th) Preventing PFAS Runoff at Airports Act
Became law
S. 1694 (116th) One Small Step to Protect Human Heritage in Space Act
Became law
S. 3418 (116th) STORM Act
Became law
S. 3031 (115th) Federal Personal Property Management Act of 2018
Became law

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

Committees

Senate Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Airland, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries, Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs — Ranking Member
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Subcommittee on Border Management, Federal Workforce, and Regulatory Affairs, Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census

Elections Sen. Peters has won

Sen. Peters has won 3 U.S. House elections (2008–2012) and 2 U.S. Senate elections (2014, 2020). Of the contested races, margins ran from 1.7 to 66.6 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won5 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 1.7 points2020, MI Senate

Won an open seat or took one from the other party2 of 5 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Michigan’s 14th districtWinners, most recent three: John Conyers, Jr. (D) 1992–2010 → Gary C. Peters (D) 2012 → Brenda L. Lawrence (D) 2014–2020. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

Seat history, Michigan Senate (class 2)Winners in regular elections, most recent three: Carl Levin (D) 1978–2008 → Gary C. Peters (D) 2014–2020. The seat is next on the ballot in 2026.

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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 Michigan done while Sen. Peters served?

2015 to 2024 in Michigan: typical household income was up 7% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.3 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 2.7 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

Michigan: $67.8K in 2015 → $72.4K in 2024

Michigan up 7%U.S. up 10%

Share of people below the poverty line

Michigan: 15.8% in 2015 → 13.4% in 2024

Michigan down 2.3 pointsU.S. down 2.6 points

Share of workers looking for a job

Michigan: 7.2% in 2015 → 4.5% in 2024

Michigan down 2.7 pointsU.S. down 1.7 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. Oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Michigan during Peters’s time representing it (2015 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

Michigan’s borders do not change, so every year is comparable. 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.

Local offices

Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.

Detroit office477 Michigan Ave., Suite 1837, Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building, Detroit, MI 48226
Phone 313-226-6020 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Grand Rapids office110 Michigan St. NW, Suite 720, Gerald R. Ford Federal Building, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Phone 616-233-9150 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Lansing office124 W. Allegan St., Suite 1400, Lansing, MI 48933
Phone 517-377-1508 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Marquette office857 W. Washington St., Suite 308, Marquette, MI 49855
Phone 906-226-4554 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Pontiac office51111 Woodward Avenue, Suite 725, Pontiac, MI 48342
Phone 248-608-8040 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Flint office416 N Saginaw Street, Suite 222, Flint, MI 48502
Phone 989-754-0112 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Traverse City office109 E. Front Street, 215B, Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone 231-947-7773 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)

Evidence

File: legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries P000595-detroit, P000595-grand_rapids, P000595-lansing, P000595-marquette, P000595-pontiac, P000595-flint, P000595-traverse_city (7 offices)
Published at: https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
File date: September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain)

Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, www.peters.senate.gov.

Federal figures for Michigan

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s state. The full table, sources and notes are on the state page.

2,381,255people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 1; sheet 'MI - OASDI', row 5
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

247,605people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 2; sheet 'MI - SSI', row 6
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

$4,074,785,377VA direct expenditures in the state, FY2025

Source: VA GDX FY2025, State Direct, September 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File: GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'State Direct Exp', row 26, FIPS 26
Prepared: September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries: 119th Congress districts
Licence: U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

Open the Michigan page, with notes →

Read this first. These describe the state, not the member. They say nothing about what this member did or did not do, and they are never used to rate or rank members.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 85 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	85	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	17	See the 17 →
With a committee report listed	7	See the 7 →
With a Congress.gov note	1	See the 1 →

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th 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.

Votes on civilian nominations

237 confirmation roll calls this senator was on the roll for, 119th Congress. A tally of what the record shows, not a score.

Yea 24 (10%)Nay 210 (89%)Not voting 3 (1%)

Nay · September 30, 2026 · Keith Sonderling Secretary of Labor
Nay · September 23, 2026 · Angela Veronica Colmenero United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
Nay · September 17, 2026 · Kasdin Miller Mitchell United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas
Nay · September 15, 2026 · Matthew R. Byrne United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
Nay · August 8, 2026 · Todd Blanche Attorney General
Nay · August 7, 2026 · Michael Kavoukjian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway
Nay · August 5, 2026 · Erica Schwartz Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Nay · July 28, 2026 · Walter Clayton Director of National Intelligence

Source: Senate roll call votes, as stored by PORKER ↗

Evidence

What is counted: Senate roll calls in the 119th Congress on the question of confirming a civilian nomination, as recorded on senate.gov. Cloture and procedural votes are not counted.
How it is matched: The vote record names the nomination number; the senator is matched by the Senate member id.
Not voting: Includes absences and any other reason. The record does not say why.

589 of the 617 confirmed civilian nominations show a roll-call vote on their latest-action line; the rest show a voice vote, unanimous consent or another method, with no individual votes. So this is only the roll-call subset. It says nothing about whether any vote was right or wrong.

All confirmed nominations Nominations hub

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded Senate vote Sep 30, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.