Former member of Congress · last served 109th Congress
Jim Ryun
Jim Ryun was a Republican U.S. representative from Kansas, first elected to Congress in 1997, who sponsored 2 bills that became law (105th–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.R. 5909 Haley's ActAug 3, 2006 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture .
- H.R. 413 Bleeding Kansas National Heritage Area ActJun 28, 2006 · Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 298.
- H.Res. 793 Affirming that statements of national unity, including the National Anthem, should be recited or sung in English.May 2, 2006 · Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- H.Res. 786 Condemning the recent election of the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations to the position of Vice-chair of the United Nations Disarmament Commission.Apr 27, 2006 · Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
- H.Res. 720 Honoring the life of Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks.Apr 6, 2006 · Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1566)
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 2133 (107th) To establish a commission for the purpose of encouraging and providing for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v.…Became law
- H.R. 3733 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 410 Huston Street in Altamont, Kansas, as the "Myron V. George Post Office".Became law
- H.Con.Res. 358 (107th) Supporting the goals and ideals of National Better Hearing and Speech Month, and for other purposes.Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 259 (106th) Supporting the goals and ideals of the Olympics.Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 257 (108th) Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harry W. Colmery.Passed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 374 (108th) Expressing the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense, Federal banking agencies, the National Credit Union Administration, and the Federal Trade…Reported from committee
- H.R. 414 (109th) Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act112 cosponsors
- H.R. 2061 (109th) Communities First Act88 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Ryun has won
Rep. Ryun has won 4 U.S. House elections (1996–2004). Of the contested races, margins ran from 6.7 to 38.1 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 Kansas’s 2nd district done while Rep. Ryun served?
2005 to 2006 in KS-2: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was up 2.0 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 Kansas’s 2nd district during Ryun’s time representing it (1997 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. KS-2 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Ryun’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 36 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 36 | 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 | 1 | See the 1 → |
| 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.