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Rep. Dwight Evans

Representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd District

pronounced dwīt // EH-vunz

Evans is the representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Evans is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 69 years old.

He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 2016 to 2018.

Photo of Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA3]

Earmarks

Evans proposed $24 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $3.5 million to Habitat for Hunaity Philadlephia, Inc. for “Lower North Affordable Homeownership Project”
  • $3.0 million to Veteran's Motorcycle Program (VETMOTO) for “Beacon of Hope Affordable Housing Workforce Dev., transit Assisted Design by VETMOTO”
  • $2.0 million to Community of Compassion, Inc. for “Compassion Senior Living”

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 Evans.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Evans 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 Evans has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 22, 2023. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Dwight Evans sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Evans was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

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Does 3 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

Evans sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (21%) Commerce (21%) Crime and Law Enforcement (18%) Taxation (18%) Education (7%) Housing and Community Development (7%) Labor and Employment (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Evans recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Evans voted Yea

Evans voted Nay

Passed 387/35 on Nov 3, 2021.

Evans voted Yea

Passed 327/85 on Dec 21, 2020.
This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, a major government funding bill, which also included economic stimulus provisions due …

Evans voted Yea

Evans voted Yea

Passed 300/104 on Apr 13, 2018.
H.R. 4790 amends Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Act, known as the “Volcker Rule,” to streamline the regulatory authority over the Volcker Rule by granting …

Evans voted Yea

Failed 259/140 on Mar 13, 2018.
H.R. 5247 authorizes the use of eligible investigational drugs by patients who have been diagnosed with certain illnesses, who have exhausted the approved treatment options …

Evans voted Aye

Passed 257/166 on Nov 8, 2017.
H.R. 3043 modernizes the regulatory permitting process and encourages the expansion of hydropower generation by improving administrative efficiency, accountability, and transparency; promotes new hydropower infrastructure; …

Evans voted Nay

Passed 400/16 on Apr 5, 2017.
H.R. 1304 clarifies that federal regulators cannot redefine “stop-loss” insurance as “health insurance coverage” under federal law. Specifically, the legislation amends the Employee Retirement Income …

Missed Votes

From Nov 2016 to Sep 2023, Evans missed 74 of 3,612 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with 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.

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Primary Sources

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