Former member of Congress · last served 115th Congress
Paul D. Ryan
Paul Ryan was a Republican U.S. representative from Wisconsin, first elected to Congress in 1999, who voted with most Republicans on 96% 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. 4174 Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018Jan 14, 2019 · Became Public Law No: 115-435.
- H.Res. 397 Solemnly reaffirming the commitment of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's principle of collective defense as enumerated in Article…Jun 27, 2017 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.R. 9 Reserved for the Speaker.Jan 3, 2017 · Introduced in House
- H.Res. 639 Authorizing the Speaker to appear as amicus curiae on behalf of the House of Representatives in the matter of United States, et al. v. Texas, et al., No.…Apr 18, 2016 · NOTIFICATION OF FILING - Pursuant to H.Res. 639, the Chair announced that an amicus brief was filed on April 4, 2016 in the United States Supreme Court in the…
- H.R. 1831 Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act of 2016Mar 30, 2016 · Became Public Law No: 114-140.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 4241 (106th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1818 Milton Avenue in Janesville, Wisconsin, as the "Les Aspin Post Office Building".Became law
- H.R. 5394 (108th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the taxation of arrow components.Became law
- H.R. 4890 (109th) Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006Passed a chamber
- H.R. 3521 (112th) Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2012Passed a chamber
- H.R. 5873 (111th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 218 North Milwaukee Street in Waterford, Wisconsin, as the "Captain Rhett W. Schiller…Passed a chamber
- H.J.Res. 32 (106th) Social Security Guarantee InitiativePassed a chamber
- H.Con.Res. 25 (113th) Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Ryan has won
Rep. Ryan has won 10 U.S. House elections (1998–2016). Of the contested races, margins ran from 11.5 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 Wisconsin’s 1st district done while Rep. Ryan served?
2012 to 2018 in WI-1: typical household income was up 9% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.4 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 4.4 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 Wisconsin’s 1st district during Ryan’s time representing it (1999 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. WI-1 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 1999 to 2019.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
115th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 3 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 3 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
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.