Former member of Congress · last served 115th Congress
Jared Polis
Jared Polis was a Democratic U.S. representative from Colorado, first elected to Congress in 2009, who voted with most Democrats on 87% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 2 bills that became law (113th–115th 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.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments — American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Agreeing to the Resolution — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 8) to extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and…Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — Drywall Safety Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — To provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska.Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Congressional Pay Freeze and Fiscal Responsibility ActJan 1, 2013 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 6831 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 West Main Street in Frisco, Colorado, as the "Patrick E. Mahany, Jr., Post Office…Dec 21, 2018 · Became Public Law No: 115-382.
- H.R. 7309 To authorize the Every Word We Utter Monument to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.Dec 13, 2018 · Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- H.R. 5928 Students Over Special Interests ActOct 19, 2018 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development.
- H.Res. 1120 Expressing support for designation of the week of October 4, 2018, through October 10, 2018, as World Space Week and for the designation of the week of…Oct 5, 2018 · Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently…
- H.R. 6832 Safe Helicopters Now ActSep 17, 2018 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2337 (113th) Lake Hill Administrative Site Affordable Housing ActBecame law
- H.R. 1324 (114th) Arapaho National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2015Passed a chamber
- H.R. 688 (115th) Arapaho National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2017Passed a chamber
- H.R. 689 (115th) Bolts Ditch Access and Use ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 4510 (114th) Bolts Ditch Access and Use ActPassed a chamber
- H.R. 4846 (113th) Arapaho National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2014Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3923 (111th) Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District Land Exchange ActPassed a chamber
- H.Res. 1038 (111th) Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3726) to establish the Castle Nugent National Historic Site at St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, and for…Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Polis has won
Rep. Polis has won 5 U.S. House elections (2008–2016). Of the contested races, margins ran from 13.5 to 28.7 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 Colorado’s 2nd district done while Rep. Polis served?
2012 to 2018 in CO-2: typical household income was up 13% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.9 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 3.3 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 Colorado’s 2nd district during Polis’s time representing it (2009 to 2019). 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. CO-2 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, 2012 to 2018 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2009 to 2019.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
115th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 31 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 31 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 26 | See the 26 → |
| 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.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.