Rep. Brendan Boyle
Representative for Pennsylvania’s 2nd District
pronounced BREN-din // boyul
Boyle is the representative for Pennsylvania’s 2nd congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Boyle is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 46 years old.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 13th congressional district as a Democrat from 2015 to 2018.
![Photo of Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA2]](/static/legislator-photos/412652-200px.jpeg)
Earmarks
Boyle proposed $17 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $2.0 million to North 10 Philadelphia (d/b/a North10) for “Historic Carman Gardens Center”
- $2.0 million to Frankford Community Development Corporation for “Frankford Transportation Center Transit Oriented Development Project”
- $2.0 million to City of Philadelphia – Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild) for “McPherson Square Library Renovation”
View all requests and justifications on Boyle’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Boyle.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Boyle is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Boyle has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 22, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Brendan Boyle sits on the following committees:
- House Committee on the Budget Ranking Member
Enacted Legislation
Boyle was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Boyle sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (29%) Taxation (17%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Economics and Public Finance (12%) International Affairs (10%) Crime and Law Enforcement (5%) Social Welfare (5%) Education (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Boyle recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 644: Calling on the Judicial Conference of the United States to authorize that the …
- H.R. 4963: Tax Fairness for Workers Act
- H.R. 4827: Labor Market Response Act
- H.R. 4534: Women and Lung Cancer Research and Preventive Services Act of 2023
- H.R. 4535: Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act
- H.R. 4397: No Taxpayer Bailout for Defamation Act
- H.R. 3953: Debt Ceiling Reform Act
View All » | View Cosponsors »
Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2015 to Sep 2023, Boyle missed 160 of 4,890 roll call votes, which is 3.3%. This is worse than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Office of Rep. Boyle for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
