Member of Congress · 119th Congress
Derek Schmidt
Derek Schmidt is a Republican U.S. representative from Kansas, in Congress since 2025, who voted with most Republicans on 96% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes.
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 Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Passage — PROOF ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 8352 Criminal History Access Act of 2026Oct 14, 2026 · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- H.R. 10793 To modify the authority of Department of Defense for installation support services and intergovernmental support agreements, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
- H.R. 4465 To amend chapters 4, 10, and 131 of title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep those chapters current and to correct related technical errors.Sep 14, 2026 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- H.R. 8276 Quindaro Townsite National Historic Landmark ActSep 10, 2026 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- H.R. 9794 To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish the Senator Robert J. Dole Greatest Generation Education Program.Jul 20, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 8065 (119th) Restoring Executive Branch Authorities to Oversee Offices of the United States Attorneys Act of 2026Reported from committee
- H.R. 9298 (119th) Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act121 cosponsors
- H.R. 5364 (119th) STOP FRAUD in Medicaid Act10 cosponsors
- H.R. 3825 (119th) Kelsey Smith Act3 cosponsors
- H.R. 7752 (119th) Kelsey Smith Act3 cosponsors
- H.R. 3502 (119th) Wrongful Injunction Accountability Act2 cosponsors
- H.R. 4112 (119th) Congressional Review Reform Act of 20252 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on Armed ServicesMilitary Personnel, Readiness, Tactical Air and Land Forces
- House Committee on Small BusinessInnovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development, Rural Development, Energy, and Supply Chains
- House Committee on the JudiciaryImmigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, Oversight, The Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust
Elections Rep. Schmidt has won
Rep. Schmidt has won 1 U.S. House election (2024–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 18.9 to 18.9 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.
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.
- Pittsburg office402 N Broadway St, Suite B, Pittsburg, KS 66762
Phone 620-308-7450 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Topeka office3550 SW 5th St, Suite B, Topeka, KS 66606
Phone 785-205-5253 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries S001228-pittsburg, S001228-topeka (2 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, schmidt.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 18 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 18 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 25, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 18 | See the 18 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
| 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 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 25, 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 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.