Former representative · Oregon's 3rd district

Earl Blumenauer

Earl Blumenauer served in Congress from 1996 to 2025, last as a Democratic representative for Oregon's 3rd district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 131, and cast 772 of 776 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party: Democrat
Chamber: House; Former
In Congress since: May 21, 1996
Last term ended: Jan 3, 2025

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Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

Congress	Roll calls	Missed	Votes with party	Sponsored	Cosponsored across the aisle
118th CongressHouse of Representatives	1,222	10.7%131 of 1,222 · rank 29 of 442	99%772 of 776 · rank 27 of 442	350 became law	18%102 of 581
117th CongressHouse of Representatives	997	1.2%12 of 997 · rank 192 of 443	100%567 of 567 · rank 1 of 443	592 became law	3%26 of 968

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 118th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1−0.43+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

H.R. 4639: Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale ActYea
Apr 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 219–199· Against party
H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActYea
Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 269–153· Against party
H.R. 7888: Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActYea
Apr 12, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 212–212· Against party
H.R. 4394: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024Nay
Oct 26, 2023· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 121–299· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Not voting
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
H.R. 8663: DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act of 2024Not voting
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActNot voting
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActNot voting
Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActNot voting
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
S. 3448: Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023Not voting
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNot voting
Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
S. 4077: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 180 Steuart Street in San Francisco, California, as the "Dianne Feinstein Post Office".Not voting
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActNot voting
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Not voting
Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Oregon's 3rd district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.

Obligations · FY2026: $859.2M
Per resident: $1,227
Rank in Oregon: 1 of 6
Contract actions: 2,112; New awards: 1,229

By fiscal year

310.5MFY2017
233.5MFY2018
296.9MFY2019
417.7MFY2020
261.2MFY2021
215.3MFY2022
525.4MFY2023
555.3MFY2024
562.2MFY2025
859.2MFY2026

Top buyers

Department of the Navy$562.8M66%
Department of Defense
Maritime Administration$80M9.3%
Department of Transportation
Department of the Army$75.8M8.8%
Department of Defense
Forest Service$57.4M6.7%
Department of Agriculture
U.S. Coast Guard$32.7M3.8%
Department of Homeland Security
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management$10.4M1.2%
Department of Labor
Federal Highway Administration$10.1M1.2%
Department of Transportation
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$5.7M0.7%
Department of Justice

Top recipients

VIGOR MARINE LLC$578.2M67%
17 awards
KEYSTONE SHIPPING SERVICES, INC.$49.8M5.8%
48 awards
MANSON CONSTRUCTION CO$33M3.8%
2 awards
TOTE SERVICES, LLC$30.3M3.5%
70 awards
PORT OF PORTLAND$12.9M1.5%
1 award
CAREER SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$9.7M1.1%
2 awards
EATON CORPORATION$9.2M1.1%
1 award
JAG INDUSTRIAL SERVICES, INC$6.8M0.8%
1 award
SNC CORE JV, LLC$6.6M0.8%
1 award
JAL CONSTRUCTION, INC.$6.3M0.7%
1 award

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Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2024 cycle

Raised: $1M; through Dec 31, 2024
Cash on hand: $995K
From committees: $342.2K; 132 committees
From contractor PACs: $62.3K; 23 PACs · 18% of committee money

IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2024

PAC sponsor	Given	Matched contract recipient	Its contracts, FY2026
nextera energy, incnextera energy, inc. political action committee	$7,500	NEXTERA ENERGY SERVICES MAINE, LLCAI match · 95% · of one corporate family	$1.4M
caterpillar inc.caterpillar inc. political action committee (catpac)	$5,000	CATERPILLAR INCAI match · 100% · the same organization	$188.3M
humana inc.humana inc. political action committee	$5,000	HUMANA GOVERNMENT BUSINESS INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family	$5.6B
milliken & companymilliken & company pac	$5,000	MILLIKEN & COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization	$2M
the greenbrier companies, inc.the greenbrier companies, inc. pac (aka greenbrier pac)	$3,800	GREENBRIER GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS INCAI match · 94% · of one corporate family	$58.1M
mortgage bankers associationmortgage bankers association political action committee (morpac)	$2,500	MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization	$125K
black & veatch corporationblack & veatch political action committee (black & veatch pac)	$2,500	BLACK & VEATCH SPECIAL PROJECTS CORP.AI match · 100% · of one corporate family	$10M
international association of fire fightersinternational association of firefighters interested in registration and education pac	$2,500	INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERSAI match · 100% · the same organization	$5,280
international paperinternational paper political action committee (ip-pac)	$2,500	INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYAI match · 100% · the same organization	—
fedex corporationfedex corporation political action committee	$2,500	FEDEX SUPPLY CHAIN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INC.AI match · 100% · of one corporate family	$407.8M

By cycle

Cycle	Raised (FEC summary)	From committees	From contractor PACs
2024	$1M	$342.2K	$62.3K23 PACs · 18% of committee money
2022	$1.4M	$902.4K	$181.5K46 PACs · 20% of committee money

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 3, 2001 – Jan 3, 2003
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 6, 1999 – Jan 3, 2001
House · Oregon's 3rd districtJan 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 1999
House · Oregon's 3rd districtMay 21, 1996 – Jan 3, 1997

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)

Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.