Former representative · Colorado's 7th district
Ed Perlmutter
Ed Perlmutter served in Congress from 2007 to 2023, last as a Democratic representative for Colorado's 7th district. In the 117th Congress, 997 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 5, and cast 566 of 573 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.
- Party
- Democrat
- Chamber
- House
- Former
- In Congress since
- Jan 4, 2007
- Last term ended
- Jan 3, 2023
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117th CongressHouse of Representatives | 997 | 0.5%5 of 997 · rank 318 of 443 | 99%566 of 573 · rank 150 of 443 | 180 became law | 7%26 of 348 |
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 117th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.
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.
- Jul 13, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 118–309· Against party
- Feb 3, 2022· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 264–163· Against party
- Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 142–286· Against party
- Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 167–256· Against party
- Sep 23, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 118–299· Against party
- Mar 17, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Agreed to 242–174· Against party
- Mar 3, 2021· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 125–302· Against party
Recent votes
The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.
- Dec 23, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Adt to the House Adt to the Senate Adt· Passed 225–201
- Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 380–35
- Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 337–79
- Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 342–71
- Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 374–44
- Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 360–55
- Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 377–42
- Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 326–95
- Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201
- Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 397–12
- Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 378–33
- Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 393–19
Sponsored bills
Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.
18 sponsored · 0 became law
How far they got
- Introduced1372%
- Passed one chamber528%
Policy areas
- Congress7
- Finance and Financial Sector2
- Government Operations and Politics2
- Education1
- Energy1
- Health1
- Housing and Community Development1
- Private Legislation1
Latest activity
- H.R. 9418 27th Amendment Enforcement ActIntroduced· Congress· Dec 2, 2022
- H.R. 9417 To amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to tie the salaries of Members of Congress to the salaries of the judiciary.Introduced· Congress· Dec 2, 2022
- H.R. 9416 To establish an allowance to provide a housing stipend for Members of the House of Representatives.Introduced· Congress· Dec 2, 2022
- H.R. 6325 For the relief of Melecio Andazola-Morales.Introduced· Private Legislation· Nov 1, 2022
- H.Res. 1361 Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1098) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize borrowers to separate joint consolidation loans; and for other purposes.Passed one chamber· Congress· Sep 20, 2022
- H.R. 8577 GREEN Appraisals Act of 2022Introduced· Housing and Community Development· Aug 16, 2022
- H.Res. 1242 Expressing support for the designation of July 20, 2022, as "National Heroes Day" to honor the sacrifices of everyday heroes who save lives and improve their communities.Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· Jul 20, 2022
- H.Res. 1017 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3617) to decriminalize and deschedule cannabis, to provide for reinvestment in certain persons adversely impacted by the War on Drugs, to provide for expungement of certain cannabis offenses, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6833) to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish requirements with respect to cost-sharing for certain insulin products, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.Passed one chamber· Congress· Mar 31, 2022
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 Colorado's 7th 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.
Contract money is attributed to districts from the 118th Congress boundaries onward; this member's last district predates them.
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.
2022 cycle
- Raised
- $663.6K
- through Dec 31, 2022
- Cash on hand
- $603.6K
- From committees
- $430.2K
- 170 committees
- From contractor PACs
- $60.5K
- 29 PACs · 14% of committee money
Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2022
| PAC sponsor | Given | Matched contract recipient | Its contracts, FY2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| mortgage bankers associationmortgage bankers association political action committee (morpac) | $5,000 | MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization | $125K |
| u.s. bancorpu.s. bancorp federal political action committee | $5,000 | U.S. BANCORPAI match · 99% · the same organization | $8M |
| raytheon technologies corporationemployees of raytheon technologies corporation pac | $4,000 | RAYTHEON DIGITAL FORCE TECHNOLOGIES, LLCAI match · 90% · of one corporate family | — |
| nelnet, inc.nelnet inc pac (nelnet pac) | $3,500 | NELNET SERVICING LLCAI match · 95% · of one corporate family | $304.8M |
| american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac) | $2,500 | AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization | — |
| 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 |
| american institute of certified public accountantsamerican institute of certified public accountants political action committee | $2,500 | AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTSAI match · 100% · the same organization | — |
| honeywell internationalhoneywell international political action committee | $2,500 | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization | $260.5M |
| jpmorgan chase & co.jpmorgan chase & co. federal political action committee | $2,500 | JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · of one corporate family | $1.5M |
| pricewaterhousecooperspricewaterhousecoopers political action committee i | $2,500 | PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLPAI match · 98% · the same organization | $4.8M |
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 · Colorado's 7th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
- House · Colorado's 7th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
- House · Colorado's 7th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
- House · Colorado's 7th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
- House · Colorado's 7th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
- House · Colorado's 7th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
- House · Colorado's 7th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
- House · Colorado's 7th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
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 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 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)
- 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 5, 2026 · loaded Oct 5, 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 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 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.