Former member of Congress · last served 115th Congress

Mimi Walters

REPUBLICAN U.S. Representative · CaliforniaHouse 2015–2019 (CA-45)

Mimi Walters was a Republican U.S. representative from California, first elected to Congress in 2015, who sponsored 1 bill that became law (114th–115th Congress).

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16Bills & resolutions sponsored114th–115th Congress (excludes amendments)

3Passed a chamberof 16 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

1Became law1 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 114th–115th Congress

—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

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. 4219 Workflex in the 21st Century Act
Jul 24, 2018 · Committee Hearings Held.
H.R. 6273 To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure appropriate care by certain 340B covered entities for victims of sexual assault, and for other purposes.
Jun 28, 2018 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
H.R. 5797 IMD CARE Act
Jun 21, 2018 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
H.R. 4795 Communications Facilities Deployment on Federal Property Act of 2018
Jan 19, 2018 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
H.R. 4397 California Wildfire Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2017
Nov 15, 2017 · Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in…

Top bills sponsored

H.R. 5578 (114th) Survivors' Bill of Rights Act of 2016
Became law
H.R. 3636 (114th) O-VISA Act
Passed a chamber
H.R. 4003 (114th) Regulatory Reporting Act of 2015
Reported from committee
H.R. 2689 (114th) To clarify the scope of eligible water resources projects under the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 and the Water Resources Reform and Development Act…
38 cosponsors
H.R. 2207 (114th) FSA Act
8 cosponsors
H.R. 1109 (114th) Social Security Lump-Sum Death Benefit Improvement and Modernization Act of 2015
5 cosponsors

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Walters has won

Rep. Walters has won 2 U.S. House elections (2014–2016). Of the contested races, margins ran from 17.1 to 30.2 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won2 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 17.1 points2016, CA-45

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 2 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, California’s 45th districtWinners, most recent three: Katie Porter (D) 2018–2020 → Michelle Steel (R) 2022 → Derek Tran (D) 2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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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 45th district done while Rep. Walters served?

2015 to 2018 in CA-45: typical household income was up 7% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.1 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.1 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

CA-45: $124.0K in 2015 → $132.7K in 2018

CA-45 up 7%California up 10%U.S. up 5%

Share of people below the poverty line

CA-45: 10.4% in 2015 → 8.3% in 2018

CA-45 down 2.1 pointsCalifornia down 2.5 pointsU.S. down 1.6 points

Share of workers looking for a job

CA-45: 5.2% in 2015 → 4.1% in 2018

CA-45 down 1.1 pointsCalifornia down 1.8 pointsU.S. down 1.4 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 California’s 45th district during Walters’s time representing it (2015 to 2019). 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-45 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Walters’s term so far (2015 to 2018) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

115th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 9 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	9	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement	9	See the 9 →
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.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.