Former U.S. Representative

Peter A. DeFazioNo longer serving

Fact sheet
Official portrait of Peter A. DeFazio
351 bills introduced

Across 11 Congresses, most in the 116th at 53. In the 117th, 37 — 14 more than the median representative, who filed 23. Of the 351, 11 became law. Volume is not influence: the great majority of bills, from every member, never get a vote.

Bills introduced, against the typical representative 107th to 117th

median for the chamber, that Congress

Cosponsored
4,683

Signed on to someone else's bill

Recorded votes
17,342

Roll calls tied to a bill, nominations aside

Their work

Drawn from the 351 bills this member introduced: the subjects the record assigns them, and the members who most often sign on.

Most frequent cosponsors

Times each has cosponsored a bill this member introduced.

Biography

A Representative from Oregon. Born in Needham, Norfolk County, Mass. , May 27, 1947. Graduated from Needham High School, Needham, Mass. , 1965. B. A. , Tufts University, Medford, Mass. , 1969. M. A. , University of Oregon, Eugene, Oreg. , 1977. United States Air Force Reserve, 1967-1971. Staff, United States Representative James Howard Weaver of Oregon, 1977-1982. Member of the Lane County, Oreg. , board of commissioners, 1983-1986, chair, 1985-1986. Unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in a special primary election in 1995. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1987-January 3, 2023). Chair, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (One Hundred Sixteenth and One Hundred Seventeenth Congresses). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress in 2022.

Votes

How this member answered on every recorded vote tied to a bill, newest first — including the procedural motions on it, such as cloture. Votes on nominations are not listed, because they are not attached to a bill.

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions this member introduced.

BillTitleStatusLatest action
HR 6866Safer Seas ActReferred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.Mar 1, 2022
HR 6425AID ActReferred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.Feb 8, 2022
HR 4679To designate the Federal building located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue Southeast in Washington, DC, as the "Norman Yoshio Mineta Federal Building".Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.Nov 15, 2021
HR 980Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act of 2021Subcommittee Hearings Held.Nov 9, 2021
HR 5763Further Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2021Became Public Law No: 117-52.Oct 31, 2021
HR 5434Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2021Became Public Law No: 117-44.Oct 2, 2021
HR 5215Social Security Stabilization and Enhancement ActReferred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.Sep 13, 2021
HR 4991Affordable Pricing for Taxpayer-Funded Prescription Drugs Act of 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.Aug 11, 2021

Cosponsored bills

Bills introduced by others that this member signed on to.

BillTitleStatusSigned on
HR 9497International Violence Against Women Act of 2022Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.Dec 12, 2022
HRES 1451Original National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 2022Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.Oct 28, 2022
HRES 1185Embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation.Oct 14, 2022
HR 9149Reward Work ActReferred to the House Committee on Financial Services.Oct 7, 2022
HR 7030Open App Markets ActReferred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.Oct 7, 2022
HRES 1426Urging the people of the United States to observe the month of October 2022 as Italian and Italian-American Heritage Month.Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.Oct 7, 2022
HR 9110Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act of 2022Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.Sep 30, 2022
HR 7474Pharmaceutical Research Transparency Act of 2022Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.Sep 28, 2022

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Party, state and chamber are those of this member's most recent term. Bills and cosponsorships are held from the 107th Congress onwards and recorded votes from the 101st, so a member who served before those points will show fewer than they filed, or none. Committee seats are held for the current Congress only, which is why they are shown for sitting members and left out for everyone else rather than reported as zero. Vote counts cover roll calls tied to a bill; the chambers also vote on procedure and nominations, which are not listed here. Office, telephone and website are not shown for a member who has left, because the ones on file were theirs while serving. Records come from Congress.gov and the Biographical Directory of Congress.