Former member of Congress · last served 111th Congress
Ellen O. Tauscher
Ellen Tauscher was a Democratic U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 1997, who sponsored 1 bill that became law (105th–111th 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. 1052 Ensuring Military Readiness Through Stability and Predictability Deployment Policy ActApr 27, 2009 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- H.Res. 331 Supporting the goals and ideals of National Drowning Prevention and Water Safety Month.Apr 21, 2009 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
- H.R. 1830 Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009Mar 31, 2009 · Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
- H.R. 1283 Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009Mar 31, 2009 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- H.R. 1571 Private Investment in Commuter Vanpooling Act of 2009Mar 18, 2009 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 6111 (109th) Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006Became law
- H.R. 3159 (110th) Ensuring Military Readiness Through Stability and Predictability Deployment Policy Act of 2007Passed a chamber
- H.R. 1139 (106th) Affordable Child Care Education, Security, and Safety Act134 cosponsors
- H.Res. 241 (105th) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Senate should act swiftly and expeditiously to give its advice and consent to ratification of…110 cosponsors
- H.R. 2459 (106th) To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to General Wesley Clark and to provide for the production of bronze duplicates of…109 cosponsors
- H.Res. 963 (109th) Congratulating and thanking Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta for his 40 years of dedicated service to the people of the United States.70 cosponsors
- H.Con.Res. 335 (108th) Recognizing the sacrifices made by members of the regular and reserve components of the Armed Forces, expressing concern about their safety and security, and…58 cosponsors
- H.Res. 307 (108th) Creating a select committee to investigate the effectiveness of the United States' intelligence structure to meet global threats.58 cosponsors
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Tauscher has won
Rep. Tauscher has won 7 U.S. House elections (1996–2008). Of the contested races, margins ran from 1.4 to 51.2 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 California’s 10th district done while Rep. Tauscher served?
2005 to 2008 in CA-10: typical household income was up 5% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, 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 California’s 10th district during Tauscher’s time representing it (1997 to 2009). 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. CA-10 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Tauscher’s term so far (2005 to 2008) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
111th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 7 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 7 | 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 | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a Congress.gov note | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 111th 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.